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House should lose Hart
As a resident of Hayden and Legislative District 3, I am demanding that Phil Hart resign from the Idaho Legislature. If he does not resign, the House of Representatives should remove him from office.
A tax protester has no legal or moral standing to represent taxpayers and vote on how to spend taxpayers’ hard-earned money!
According to information at www.spokesman.com/blogs/boise/, these are the facts:
1. Hart is a tax protester. Judge Pajak of the U.S. Tax Court declared, “Petitioner (Hart) makes tax protester arguments that have been repeatedly rejected by this Court and others as inapplicable or without merit.”
2. Hart is claiming that the reason he is not paying his taxes is to protect the people who have purchased his book. Once again, court documents show Hart is not telling the truth. Documents filed in federal court state: “In an effort to resolve this matter, the parties agreed to allow petitioner (Hart) to redact all of the names of the purchasers of petitioner’s book on the documents sought and submit the redacted documents to the IRS.”
Contact Speaker Denney and demand Hart’s removal from office:
Representative Lawerence Denney, P.O. Box 114, Midvale, ID 83645; 208-355-2374 or (fax) 208-334-2491.
Vern Stambaugh
Hayden, Idaho