Who am I and why I Started This Blog
I am a mid 20′s hippie mama of soon to be 3 children, living in the mountains, trying to raise my kids to the best of my ability.
We garden, use cloth diapers, try to minimize our exposure to the government, and try to do the best we can for the environment.
I started this blog after finally coming to the conclusion that my husband and I are being harassed by the IRS, and apparently now other government agencies.
My husband and I have been “tagged” by the IRS b/c we are still fighting over a refund from 2002. They have now tried to get the NC Revenue Service after us, even though we were not married, didn’t live in NC, and didn’t work here. My husband is now on a “pull aside” list when flying, and so am I, neither of us are able to board a plane without a full search of us and our belongings. My mail now comes opened most days. My children don’t even get to open their own packages from their great grandmother b/c the post office does it for them. My business packages come opened and often dirtied and I have to sell them at a discount.
Until we started fighting the IRS and writing our congressmen about it and the real ID act, I never gave what our government did a second thought. It was what it was and we had little say and it was here to protect us. I mean, they know best, right?
I have since decided that isn’t right. We are targets now b/c we wrote that letter and because we have stood up to fight. I honestly believe that and so does my husband. It happens to a lot of Americans who stand up to the IRS. It was really eye opening for me when it started happening.
I grew up in an upper middle class family in the suburbs of Washington DC. My mother is a republican to the core. I was raised with those same values and never questioned anything that our government said and did. Heck, until college, I thought Regan was the best president ever………….. (I have figured that one out 
) But my point is, not everything they are doing is right or legal, and something has to happen to open our eyes to it.
My eyes were opened. I hope this blog might help open a few more.
Lazarus said,
April 24, 2008 @ 3:29 am
You are not alone. I am in the second month of refusing the American Community Survey.
There is a 3 month cycle after which they will leave you alone. 30 days of trying to get you to answer mailings, 30 days of phone harrassment if they have a phone number associated with the address, and 30 days that they may try to contact you in person. After that they will leave you alone. The best way to resist is to offer none of the information, if they get part of it they will continue to try to get more. Just mailing back a blank form gives the information that a home still exists at that address.
They send it out to 3 million households every year. The individuals are scattered so there can be little collective outrage in your community, your neighbors aren’t getting one. It is going to be a perpetual census that is constantly updated. Right down to the GPS location of your front door. It replaces the long form that was used every 10 years during the ‘real’ census count. The ACS is a new government monster that needs to have it’s funding pulled.
There is no need to fear any fine, they have no power to fine anybody. They have to refer your case to the Dept of Justice and the Census hasn’t done that for more than 40 years. And they aren’t going to start now.
Contact me if you want more places to look for information. You may or may not have been targeted for the survey. It probably doesn’t have anything to do with your IRS problems. But the end goal is to have a file on every household in the country. To “better serve” us.
heidi said,
August 26, 2008 @ 3:04 pm
I just got this, and I am a doc filmmaker who criticized the US gov in a film and has been harassed ever since 2005, IRS, labor dept, you name it…