WE WANT OUR PASSPORTS!! Say no to Section 7345!

SIGN TODAY AND CIRCULATE!!!

Please sign below to stop the governent from taking away the right to have a passport to citizens with unresolved IRS debts. It's only a matter of time before they use these kind of legisative tactics to have these restrictions extend to those with student debt, credit card debt, perhaps even mortgages! Do any of these debts apply to you? This law sets a legal precedent and it must be stopped! Signing this says you refuse to be a prisoner in your own country, with the government as your captor. It's time to send a message to U.S. Senator, Orrin Hatch (R-UT), and his conspirators that this will not stand.

Artfully written in to a seemingly harmless Highway Investment and Job Creation bill you will find Section 7345 of the Hatch Amendment. What does this have to do with highways and job creation? We may never understand the logic behind it; these are politicians afterall. What we can understand is this - In this economic climate it is very easy for the average American family to rack up $50,000 in IRS debt. Perhaps, they choose to not to pay taxes because they fell on hard times, and needed that money for their family. There are hundreds of reasons that workers today could be unable to pay taxes, and it's not because they are running a crime ring like Al Capone.

It is NOT FAIR for them to become prisoners in their own country. A country founded on the principles of freedom. This is something one would expect to see in a dictatorship like the USSR, not the Unites States of America. There are some very obvious inequalities as far as the tax system in the USA, and the poor people and middle class have had enough!

Below you can read an excerpt of the Hatch Amendment, as well as useful links to educate yourself more about this horrific injustice as well as other bills on the floor you might not be aware of either.

SEC. 7345. Revocation or denial of passport in case of certain tax delinquencies.

(a) In general.—If the Secretary receives certification by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue that any individual has a seriously delinquent tax debt in an amount in excess of $50,000, the Secretary shall transmit such certification to the Secretary of State for action with respect to denial, revocation, or limitation of a passport pursuant to section 1001(d) of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015.

The Wall Street Journal

Bills on the floor from the US Senate Committee on Finance

Artio Partners

The Issac Brody Society

Forbes