I like how you distilled down to the playbook that two very different bureaucratic entities used to trap a citizen and leave them no options to fight back.
The Child Protective Services corruption was caused the Clinton's Adoption and Safe Families Act. That's where they started offering state CPS institutions bribes of many thousands per child snatched from parents and put in foster care, so they would be easy prey for pedophiles.
CPS obviously looks for poor families that can't fight back or a make a fuss. In the case you describe, the doctor and the hospital retailiated for the threat of a lawsuit by pointing the corrupt CPS at her. In hindsight, if CPS starts a file on you or your child, move out of that state immediately, because they will not stop, and there is nobody that can help you.
Sorry, the entire website is devoted to exposing corruption in California's Income Tax Agency, which is called the Franchise Tax Board. I guess I need to make what FTB is more self-evident on the home page.
You are so right that once they identify you as a potential victim, the government agencies will not leave you alone.
Not a criticism, just pointing out it isn't obvious what the FTB was. I don't know why your state IRS has Franchise in their name.
To me, the word 'Franchise' is where you own and operate a McDonald's restaurant.
an authorization granted by a government or company to an individual or group enabling them to carry out specified commercial activities, e.g., providing a broadcasting service or acting as an agent for a company's products
I updated the home page to include that FTB is CA's Income Tax Agency. I appreciate the feedback! I am not a trained marketing person, so I only know what needs to be improved when people point things out to me.
I believe that you are correct. My understanding is that the CA constitution does not allow for personal income taxes to be collected by the state, and that the Franchise Tax Board was created to tax businesses. But somehow, they have finagled it so that individuals are considered franchises.
This is a comparison between the strategies that Child Protective Services in Arizona used to kidnap kids away from a parent and the Franchise Tax Board (California's Income Tax Agency) used against me to falsely impose penalties. They are strikingly similar tactics, despite the fact that it is two different agencies, in two different states, with completely different circumstances.
Mods: This is from my own site. If there are rules about posting your own content, feel free to delete. But I am not selling anything. My website exposes government corruption in California.
The article is high quality and the topic is very relevant to the Great Awakening, I doubt the mods will have a problem with self-promotion since you aren't trying to hawk merch or anything.
Your cause (and Sara's which seems more painful and tragic to me) is right and just. But I believe you're overthinking it, and giving too much analytical credit to the agencies that do it. The creation of "separate justice" tracks (admin review, petitions, redress meetings, etc.) outside the court system is an outright denial of due process. Once that happens, the corruption tends to multiply unchecked. Saying it's a playbook is almost like saying that mold plans on how to grow around an old sink, or that quicksand plans how to catch a rabbit. It doesn't plan, it just endures and flourishes until the conditions change.
I believe you've accurately observed and described a phenomenon of corruption, but assigned the perpetrators an intelligence they don't deserve. (Imagine if CPS were optimized for profit by a company, for example: they might sponsor teacher's conferences with retreats and swag bags the way pharma sponsors doctors.) The perpetrators are certainly evil, but they're not that smart. JMO.
That is a fair and cogent criticism. I agree with you that the majority of the players aren't smart, but I think what happens is they see what works for other agencies and emulate that model. Maybe we can say they deliberately spread moisture and sprinkle mold spores to encourage the mold to grow?
I think you will find this interesting. Tax appeals used to be overseen by the Board of Equalization, who are elected to office. Because the BOE staff is elected and want to get re-elected, they frequently sided with the taxpayers. In 2017, Governor Brown and State Controller Betty Yee took the tax appeals away from the BOE and created a whole new agency to handle appeals called the Office of Tax Appeals. The new OTA almost always sides with the FTB. Instead of moving the free student attorney program from the BOE to the OTA, they moved the free attorney program to the FTB. Yes, the free attorneys who fight for you in the OTA court against FTB are employed by FTB. I wrote a post about it back when it happened: https://gwsandiego.net/blog/?p=6
Yes, practical solutions are limited by design. And justice is not included in their plans. Even so, thinking they have a secret playbook is a mistake: they just get away with whatever they can, whenever they can... protecting their own, like thieves.
A good article, but I don't what the 'FTB' is.
I like how you distilled down to the playbook that two very different bureaucratic entities used to trap a citizen and leave them no options to fight back.
The Child Protective Services corruption was caused the Clinton's Adoption and Safe Families Act. That's where they started offering state CPS institutions bribes of many thousands per child snatched from parents and put in foster care, so they would be easy prey for pedophiles.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2010/3/30/852665/-
Web Archive of above site:
https://archive.is/BcqQf
CPS obviously looks for poor families that can't fight back or a make a fuss. In the case you describe, the doctor and the hospital retailiated for the threat of a lawsuit by pointing the corrupt CPS at her. In hindsight, if CPS starts a file on you or your child, move out of that state immediately, because they will not stop, and there is nobody that can help you.
Sorry, the entire website is devoted to exposing corruption in California's Income Tax Agency, which is called the Franchise Tax Board. I guess I need to make what FTB is more self-evident on the home page.
You are so right that once they identify you as a potential victim, the government agencies will not leave you alone.
Not a criticism, just pointing out it isn't obvious what the FTB was. I don't know why your state IRS has Franchise in their name.
To me, the word 'Franchise' is where you own and operate a McDonald's restaurant.
an authorization granted by a government or company to an individual or group enabling them to carry out specified commercial activities, e.g., providing a broadcasting service or acting as an agent for a company's products
I updated the home page to include that FTB is CA's Income Tax Agency. I appreciate the feedback! I am not a trained marketing person, so I only know what needs to be improved when people point things out to me.
I believe that you are correct. My understanding is that the CA constitution does not allow for personal income taxes to be collected by the state, and that the Franchise Tax Board was created to tax businesses. But somehow, they have finagled it so that individuals are considered franchises.
This is a comparison between the strategies that Child Protective Services in Arizona used to kidnap kids away from a parent and the Franchise Tax Board (California's Income Tax Agency) used against me to falsely impose penalties. They are strikingly similar tactics, despite the fact that it is two different agencies, in two different states, with completely different circumstances.
Mods: This is from my own site. If there are rules about posting your own content, feel free to delete. But I am not selling anything. My website exposes government corruption in California.
The article is high quality and the topic is very relevant to the Great Awakening, I doubt the mods will have a problem with self-promotion since you aren't trying to hawk merch or anything.
Your cause (and Sara's which seems more painful and tragic to me) is right and just. But I believe you're overthinking it, and giving too much analytical credit to the agencies that do it. The creation of "separate justice" tracks (admin review, petitions, redress meetings, etc.) outside the court system is an outright denial of due process. Once that happens, the corruption tends to multiply unchecked. Saying it's a playbook is almost like saying that mold plans on how to grow around an old sink, or that quicksand plans how to catch a rabbit. It doesn't plan, it just endures and flourishes until the conditions change.
I believe you've accurately observed and described a phenomenon of corruption, but assigned the perpetrators an intelligence they don't deserve. (Imagine if CPS were optimized for profit by a company, for example: they might sponsor teacher's conferences with retreats and swag bags the way pharma sponsors doctors.) The perpetrators are certainly evil, but they're not that smart. JMO.
That is a fair and cogent criticism. I agree with you that the majority of the players aren't smart, but I think what happens is they see what works for other agencies and emulate that model. Maybe we can say they deliberately spread moisture and sprinkle mold spores to encourage the mold to grow?
I think you will find this interesting. Tax appeals used to be overseen by the Board of Equalization, who are elected to office. Because the BOE staff is elected and want to get re-elected, they frequently sided with the taxpayers. In 2017, Governor Brown and State Controller Betty Yee took the tax appeals away from the BOE and created a whole new agency to handle appeals called the Office of Tax Appeals. The new OTA almost always sides with the FTB. Instead of moving the free student attorney program from the BOE to the OTA, they moved the free attorney program to the FTB. Yes, the free attorneys who fight for you in the OTA court against FTB are employed by FTB. I wrote a post about it back when it happened: https://gwsandiego.net/blog/?p=6
Yes, practical solutions are limited by design. And justice is not included in their plans. Even so, thinking they have a secret playbook is a mistake: they just get away with whatever they can, whenever they can... protecting their own, like thieves.