TAP No. 33 - Supermarket Codes and Ripoffs, Tax Refusal

PAY AND DIE? 4 It fs often said that death and taxes are inevitable. repeat anything they hear. ‘Until now death has been neces- Sary because people insisted on breeding and we'd be standing You on each other's heads in no time if it weren't for death. know, of course, that it is not necessary to have children. You may NOT know that our technology is only a few years (100? 50? less?) away from eliminating death. Read The Immortalist by Harrington, The Second Genesis by Rosen- feld, Here Comes Immortality by Tuccille, and Heinlein's I Will Fear No Evil and Time enouah for love: the lives of Lazarus Long. (Borrow them FREE from your library) If you could live forever OR hay jldren, which would you choose? Have you had your for yet? As for taxes, many shrewd individuals are "Working Within the System" TO DESTROY IT! They claim that the 16th Amendment is unconstitutional. Rene Baxter (4045 East Palm Lane, Phoenix, AZ 85008) is one of the many knowledgeable advocates of tax refusal. Here's his plan. “According to Federal law, a dollar is a silver coin contain- ing 412 1/2 grains of standard silver" Did you receive 750 or more dollars in income last year? Ofcourse not. All you got was "fiat dollars" - printing press money. Therefore fore file a W4E with your employer. It states that you are exempt from taxation. "... the IRS is 90®bluff. They have successfully violated our rights only because we al- lowed them to do so. Our fear is based on our own ignor- ance of our rights under the Constitution and under Federal law. The fact is, a very large number of people are suc- cessfully defying the IRS. They aren't being charged; they aren't being tried; and they aren't being convicted. Equally important, they aren't paying any taxes. The IRS admits that there are now over 5 million tax resistors in the US. Many are using dubious or illegal tax avoidance methods. A growing number, however, are basing their non-compli- ance on the Constitution and on Federal law. There is now overwhelming evidence that these methods are not only successful but completely legal. In fact, they are based on a strict observation of the law." BE SURE to cross out the "Under penalties of perjury..." statement at the end of the 1040. One of the Advisable Missions Force's informants, WITHIN THE IRS, says they are terrified of people who plead the Fifth and Fourth Amendments. You have Big Brother by the BALLS! So squeeze him like he's been squeezing youl Baxter's Tax Revolt is $2, He publishes a fortnightly economic newsletter (expensi.e) and "Freedom Today" (monthly, inexpensive) and sells several books, among them Tax Revolt:USA ! by Martin Larson $5. The cover shows a 1040 being burned. Remember when burning draft cards was a popular activity? Has anyone been drafted lately? Don't ask for the info free because "you can't afford it", If you don't pay taxes, like those of us who collect welfare or unemployment insurance (which insures unemployment why work?) or have your income deposited directly in Zurich or elsewhere, you don't need the info. If you do pay taxes, you can certainly afford to learn how to STOP paying them! A popular recent saying is "Eat the Rich", Whether you choose to or not, stop feeding Big Brother with $. Mr. Phelps @Youth'Hot Line Reports, Inc. 1976-Do not make checks out to Youth Hot Line Reports, PLEASE. Movement groups may reprint without permission with TAP's address given with all credits, and please send us a copy of reprinted work. Warning: We will prosecute violators. Human sheep repeat this platitude the same way parrots unthinkingly FEB=MAR 1976 No. 33 ODDS & ENDS by TOM EDISON ‘There has been some new response to the TAP "I" shirt, So far people writing in want shirt #1. The choices are shown in the October 1973 issue #22. Keep those cards and letters coming in folks! ‘There have also been some off-hook currents sent in by ‘TAP readers. A chart listing all off-hook currents will be in next month's issue. Please continue to send in off-hook current values, We've had a number of letters from the New England area especially Mass. informing us of a large crash program to uncover illegal extension phones and answering devices. Shame on you---for getting caught! ! 1,1 wouldn't dream of telling you that if you put a SPST switch in series with each of your freebees and leave the switch in the off position there's no way in hell that Pa Bell can find out when they very sneakily "test" the line at 3 AM with a signal that's strong enough to register on their meter but not strong enough to ring your phone. Remember also that when you connect a phone answering device to your line it can be Getected So if you have.any friends who have an illegal phone answering device make sure that you don't tell them how to avoid detection by putting a SPST switch in series with the device and shutting off the legal phone when the answering device is in use so only one "phone" shows on the detection equipment. T've received two other off-hook currents - 275 ma.and 9.1 ma, I don't know what the hell to make of these readings. One looks too high and the other too low! Phone resistance and the 48 volt DC battery at the local CO are pretty standard so there shouldn't be such a wide variety of values. Please recheck your milliammeter and note the on and off-hook line voltages. For you underground record freaks let me recommend Perfect Pitch, P.O. Box 136, Hallowell, Maine 04347, They have an extensive catalog of great underground and imported underground records by such artists as: Beatles, Stones, Dylan, Who, Dead, Zeppelin, Hendrix, Clapton, CSN&Y, Bowie, Deep Purple and many more. Senda self addressed stamped envelope for their free catalog. They offer fast service and the records come shrink wrapped with inner protection sleeves. Their catalog also rates the sound quality so you know in advance what to expect. Credit an Amherst, Mass. Yippie for the tip about Perfect Pitch. Thanks again Scott! Here are the proposed never ending rate hikes from AT&T. Compare this with TAP's inflation fighting never increasing OOPS! ever constant rates. I think that it's very obvious who's offering the better service to the public - AT&T or TAPII! - by TOM EDISON TAP'S DIAL-DIRECT NEVER MORE THAN THREE It had to happen sooner or later! In my zeal to get my article laid out for the January issue the WRONG diagram was used MINUTES AT A TIME BLACK BOX RATES for Fig. 4. The schematic showed a DPST switch which is OF ee, mats Be incorrect, If this DPST switch is used the 105 volt AC 20 Hz ringing voltage will have a low resistance path through the 0-100 o¢ o¢ Box RC network and the diodes will effectively be across MILES the line at all times. This means that the circuit will auto- — mati ““answer" your phone all the time! To correct this 100-1, 000 o¢ o¢ situation change the DPST switch to a DPDT switch and MILES connect as shown below: RING ANYWHERE o¢ | o¢ +o ? 0 * ADDITIONAL MINUTES ARE ALWAYS LESS RATES QUOTED INCLUDE TAX Atel ZENER=56 volt 5 watt HEP Z 2537 - As an aid to you do-it-yourselfers let me offer to you the ‘TOM EDISON HOME EXPERIMENTORS PHONE CHART : Phone DIODE = 100 volt @1 amp Line — FREE Feone vours] mal omms |rReq | me ON-HOOK 48 0 |INFINITE | DC { - - OFF-HOOK | 8 40 | 100-200 - TIP ” | RINGING 105 23 - 20 | - Fig. 4 R=10K OHM 7 _ 7 1/2 watt BUSY iG 480+ 60 IPM NORMAL czimfd @ 100 wvde }+—— BLACK BOX] 45 14.5 | 10Kohm]| - - ‘Terminals 3&4 are connected together as are 5&6 but there | RESISTOR is no connection between terminals 1&2. With the DPDT switch in the normal position the ringing voltage is across DIAL TONE} - - - 350+ - the phone ringer and not across the "answering" diodes. [oo —_t 4 Cn'y when the switch is put in the "free" position are the diodes placed across the line to momentarily "answer" the phone for a few milliseconds. I cannot think of a more appropriate time to build this improved automatic Black Box: NOTICE TO TELEPHONE CUSTOMERS _: Weare planning changes in the rates for most out-of-state calls. The following examples illustrate the new Interstate Long Distance rates in three sample mileage bands: WE NEED INFO (CB Radio - Though it is a violation of FCC regulations, it is possible to add an encoder - decoder system: to existing CB radios and have a telephone in your car at no monthly charge. Besides, a CB rig costs around $200, far less than the FM or VHF equipment used by Motorola-Bell systems. It requires an automatic phone patch and sending touch-tone over the AM signal. We would like a design for such a sys- tem. Also: we would like plans for a suitable bi-linear amp- f Interstato Dia!-Diroct Ono-Minuto Rates Intersiste Oporstor-AssisiedThree-MinutoRstes | lifier for mobile CB radio (and home base) use to get thru ‘Mileage Sisco | xwenton | Pomsrwresn | when things are crowded and marginal. wee .| cates |“eano™ |“Rewe" || “text | arse | “stir” | alarm systems - or "How to unprotect Big Brother". Well, 73.90 moe 230 moe it 18 possible with your help, if you send in whatever info Cea ect me heed Snaps te bined hated you may have in the way of Schematics, operation, or 429-025 mates 431-925 mics 0 methods of circumventing from local to Grade AA Central (sesatrccnn | = = b= iad Office Alarms. ed and nopharma 1011-9000 jus. yeit-2000 mien - Tried and PROVEN recipes for psycl - ee ee se ne ule Kegetos Cae an oe ceuticals. Info about memory drugs, e.g. Magnesium Geant eaneeasmeees. | Pemoline. ASK Mr. PHELPS Send in your questions and he will try to answer them. If you send a deposit to his bank account in Zurich, he will make an all-out, maximum effort. Q. What are you going to do about those new supermarket labels? Is there some way to add some lines and lower the price? A, What makes you think we would do anything like that? All we do at TAP is distribute information and report the news, Like the NY Times. Sort of. Us cheat honest businessmen providing people with necessitities at com- petitive prices? No way]! But if someone rips me off, I rip right back! One chain has a new slogan which REALLY means: "We take PRIDE in charging the highest PRICE we can get away with", The Shadow said: "The weed of crime bears bitter fruit." Well, I think free food tastes GREAT! Remember that no matter how much you rip them off, you'll barely break even unless you buy wisely. Fully half ~ hell, probably 3/4 - of the stuff in markets is a total ripoff. Cigarettes; soda and sugared, flavored, canned water; breakfast cereals (with a few exceptions); white bread; sterilized cream; and medicinals are all shit! One breakfast cereal executive once said: "If they'd buy it, we'd sell them packaged shit," That's ok, if it's properly labeled, but when they call it "food", that's FRAUD, and the perpetrators should be liquidated. As for "medicinals": first they sell you the shit, then they sell you more shit for when your stomach and guts rebel, then more shit so you can get rid of it, then more shit to straighten out your head, and finally more shit to keep you from smelling like shit, which you wouldn't if you ate right. ‘Do you know what unit pricing is, and how to calculate the price per ounce when the u.p. label is, as usual, missing or obsolete? If not, you'll often get ripped off. You'll buy "large economy sizes" which are no bargain at alll So bring along your pocket calculator, if you're too lazy to do the math in your head. In some states, there is STILL no law preventing mar- kets from increasing prices of items already on the shelves. In some states, the sheep are even charged SALES TAX on food. They just shrug. Get rid of politicians (preferably with the ballot, not the bullet) who don't represent you. The Libertarian Party is probably your best alternative. ‘The label is known as the Universal Product Code. An excellent article appeared in Barron's, May 13, 1974. Many market are hesitating, wondering if the "benefits" are worth the system's $200,000 cost. Department store owners are waiting for Optical Character Recognition systems. IBM's requires that price tags be printed in magnetic ink. (NOW do you see the reason for our DA info request?) Supermar- kets would like to avoid marking the prices on everything so they can REALLY rip you off. Legislators are working on bills to require prices on everything. Let them hear from you! UPC is now being tested in Fairport, NY, where customers said checking out is NOT quicker or easier. It's just another gimmick, but one you can profit from. ' . ° C) | 1S600°001 : 1 Can you tell the difference? Neither can the cashier, But the computer can, and we all know that computers never make mistakes, right? (The label on the left is off @ 14¢ item, the one on the right is off a $1. 69 item) It has been said that every revolutionary should own or have access to printing equipment, or know a friendly printer (the more you pay him, the friendlier he'll be) "In every coup d'etat, there comes a moment when success or failure depends on whether or not an appro- priate set of rubber stamps is available." ‘The Coming Dark Age, by Roberto Vacca "A printing press is worth more than 1000 rifles" Kim 1 Sung It would be illegal to neatly apply new gummed or self- sticking UPC labeis on top of the originals. -And most unwise to try sticking them on frozen packages, slippery plastic containers, or over colored labels. And it won't look right if you buy a cartful of food and the total is $3. 71, will it? You'll get an itemized bill so you can't use just one label several times. How would it look, a receipt for 10 packages of 14¢ salt, when you've got only delicacies like smoked oysters and caviar in your cart? You would need an assortment of labels. BOOK OF THE MONTH The Big Brother Game by Scott French $7.95 from Gru Publishing, Box 6820, San Francisco, CA 94101 A most entertaining and informative book about suz-.uil- lance, surreptitious entry, and countermeasures. Even 1 learned a great deal. Probably the most comprehensive, readily available of its type. Included are many pages from manufacturers’ catalogs, -and schematics for those who wish to make their own low cost equipment. The chapter on locksmithing itself is worth many times the price of the entire book. Techniques are described in the author's inimitable style. ‘Get this book before it is outlawed! Ina volume containing as much material as this one does, a few minor errors and omissions are inevitable. Your mission is to find them. ‘The End of TAP? It COULD happen - ifS- 1 passes. 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