labour
In my last post I mentioned ‘going to work’ so I thought I would talk about that a bit.
I have done a lot of carpentry; woodworking and mechanical system type work in renovation of homes. I do not have any type of professional ticket or title, I just have learned mostly on my own how to do this work and it has been the majority of labour that I have been compensated for with money over the past 30 years. I did contract to be employed a couple of times for a number of years in computer software development and in teaching photography. I also have been employed part-time on the board of directors of a small insurance company for the past fifteen years.
I have always paid most of the income tax that I thought I owed. I have recently learned, however, that some of the tax I was paying I didn’t lawfully need to pay at all.
When I do home renovation work I am not an employee. I do not have a business number or am not registered anywhere as having a business. I do not have contracts with any other man or woman that say I would pay income tax on any money received. At times I did call myself ‘self-employed’ though and in doing so I may have moved myself into the legal world where the money I collected was called income.
So by calling it income I did need to pay income tax. The point is though that I didn’t need to call it income. i, a man, do some labour for another man or woman and for that labour i am compensated with money. As a man i cannot be required to pay tax on my labour - that would make me a slave. Samuel Adams, a Founding Father of the United States wrote,
“If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up an essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right of freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.” link
As a man I stay in the private and I then operate under the law of mankind and not under a legal framework that only applies to titles. If I do not enter into the public world by being self- employed, or an employee, or as a taxpayer, or as a contractor, or carpenter, or any other title, I do not need to go along with the ‘legal’ framework which has been set up for all of those titles. I just do not need to enter into that society legal framework at all. The legal framework was created by men and woman for the society to deal with other things created. These are all legal fictions. They are not real.
A man or woman is god created and if they operate in that private space they do not fall into the society’s legal fiction. As a man or woman you can choose to use a title if you want to. You can choose to be an employee if you want to. But you don’t need to do that.
I learned this about 8 months ago. I understood the ramifications intellectually but it has taken till now for my soul to start becoming comfortable with it.
Greg Paul wrote a more detailed description of this reality in his booklet. “Understanding Law – The Nature of Society”. In it he wrote,
The passages above describe the systems view of our most basic right as a man or woman - the right to property, and to set the law for ones own property. It is simply a case of doing that. The Crown may have claimed the illusion of ownership of all things through the use of titles, fictions and registry’s, which they in turn own, but we as mankind have and will always retain the actual property itself, and the right to freely use whatever property we have“seized to our continued use”, resulting from the right to exercise dominion over, and use the fruits of, the earth; provided of course that we don’t surrender those rights by volunteering for a subordinate law form by identifying as a name/estate that belongs to another as our own.
This is not some concept that requires ‘public opinion’ to be able to work, it is designed into the hardware of reality and includes within it the most foundational right that every wo/man has - to establish the law form that he himself chooses to live under, and to develop her soul in harmony with the laws of love. A positive law that interferes with natural law is an unenforceable law provided that we of mankind remain resolute in the application of this most sacred right, and the perspective to recognise the true relationship of ourselves to the world around is available to all.
I did some word searches in Canada’s Income Tax Act and found how many times the act referenced certain words. Income appeared 14,808 times, taxpayer 10,542 times, and employee 870 times, while the word man or woman did not appear at all. There is nothing in the Income Tax Act that relates to a man or woman, there are only references to titles that reduce the power of a man or woman. Labour of a man or woman is not referenced and there has never been a legal requirement for labour to be taxed.
As to being self-employed the Canadian Income Tax Act said
“If the worker is a self-employed individual, they must operate a business and be engaged in a business relationship with the payer.
Therefore I am not self-employed as I don’t consider myself as operating a business or I am not engaged in a business relationship with the payer. I was a man who made an agreement with another man or woman who paid me for my labour.
This seems quite simple and it is, but it does take some time to begin to feel its veracity rather than thinking about it in the abstract.
I will continue to pay income tax where I have entered into an agreement whereby I agree to the title of employee or a pensioner. One benefit I have accrued in paying the income tax over my lifetime is that I also paid into the Canada Pension Plan. Therefore I can receive a pension payout since I turned 65. I am sure that if I had not paid into the pension fund and had saved the entire income tax and pension amount I paid in, I would be further ahead now, but that is all water under the bridge. I could go into the reasons why I think paying income tax is not a good idea though I will save that for another time.
This process I am going through, in looking at the various things that I have done in my life, I can see that many of the things I have done just because it seemed like a good idea at the time. I thought that paying income tax was necessary and partially valid. I thought that if I didn’t pay income tax I might get into trouble with various authority figures. I thought that I might be judged as doing something ethically incorrect. These things may happen but I am now in a place where I can make these decisions for myself. I can see a broad view of the workings of the society and how I have chosen to be involved in it or not. I am taking responsibility for all my decisions and myself. I am not just going along because that’s what other people are doing. It is never all the people doing something that I have gone along with but it is the people who I have some respect for and I haven’t wanted to lose their respect they might have for me. This is thinking that has meant that I suppressed my own emotion and thinking to be in line with other men and women. I do not want to live my life in regard for other people’s thoughts or feelings if those thoughts are coming from a place of false beliefs.
This is what I mean by taking responsibility for my own feelings, my own thoughts and my own actions. I may make mistakes, I may do things that I will later change but I am willing for that process to happen while I am as aware as possible of my own self.