From: "Frank O. Trotter, III" <fotiii@crl.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 22:32:09 +0800
To: Alan Horowitz <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Bulletin: Cypherpunks say no taxes owed by moneychanger
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I know Frankin and will see him next week.  His argument, which I 
have around here somewhere if I could get my paper life organized, 
realtes to gold and silver in certain situations.  If I find it I 
will reference it, otherwise I'll ask if he will post to this group.

FOT

> Date:          Tue, 9 Apr 1996 21:48:17 -0400 (EDT)
> From:          Alan Horowitz <alanh@mailhost.infi.net>
> To:            "Frank O. Trotter, III" <fotiii@crl.com>
> Cc:            cypherpunks@toad.com
> Subject:       Re: Bulletin: Cypherpunks say no taxes owed by moneychangers!

> > Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 22:43:55 -5
> > From: Frank O. Trotter, III <fotiii@crl.com>
> > Aside from ecash, helping people to exchange currency is my day job
> > so I see this all the time, especially this month each year.
> 
>   There is a guy in Tennessee who publishes a newsletter called _The 
> Moneychanger_.  He is one of those Constitutionalists. He did put himself 
> through hell to get acquited of an IRS charge - he is a dealer in gold 
> and silver and claimed that he wasn't selling anything, only changing 
> denominations of Money, with no profits. He won the federal case; the IRS 
> called their buds at the Tenn Dept of Revenue and had him indicted on a 
> failure-to-remit-sales-tax charge. He was convicted on that by the Jury 
> but he is appealing; meanwhile he only deals with out-of-Tenn people.
> 
> Which just goes to show that convictions/acquitals under a jury system 
> have a lot of random-walk flavor. Further reference at the OJ Simpson 
> newsgroups.
> 
> 
Frank O. Trotter, III  -   fotiii@crl.com
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