Comments by "Ray Lopez" (@raylopez99) on "Louis calls New York Supreme Court for answers - guess what happens?" video.

  1. Reminds me of a joke story, supposedly from real life, outside the USA, where the defendant was accused of some verbal assault and in their defense they kept hemming and hawing in court, so much so that the judge grew impatient and threw the gravel at them out of frustration, and then they said "well, if you can't control yourself why do you expect me to do so?" and got let off.
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  2. You do realize that anything they say to you (1) cannot be used against them, often they say so on their website, and (2) is often wrong. On this last point, there was a article by an experienced tax accountant in the Wall Street Journal the other day that said based on their decades of experience, two out of three times the IRS is wrong when making assertions against a taxpayer. BTW their book, quite entertaining, is: "The Sex of a Hippopotamus: A Unique History of Taxes and Accounting" by Jay Starkman
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  3.  @trentbateman  Yeah no need for a rocket launcher, that's overkill.
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  4. The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot maybe? ""Had anything been wrong, we surely would have heard."
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  5.  @nikolaikalashnikov4253  strangely enough, I left CA and closed my business and I have yet to hear from them...over ten years later. I tried to do everything proper but I guess it helps I left no forwarding address...for all I know, there's a lien outstanding and with penalties and interest any $1.99 due has now ballooned to $100k.
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  6. I live and have businesses outside of the USA, and this kind of advice reminds me, indirectly, of the sad state of affairs of how business is conducted in developing countries in south Europe and SE Asia (I am in both areas). You need to have a "fixer" --and even lawyers are largely such fixers, some of them literally are also sitting politicians--just to get anything done, and I'm taking about routine things like getting an account opened at the local electric utility company, or installing internet, without having to wait a year. Sad that the USA is slowly becoming like these Third World places.
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  7. Like a closing punchline to some 1950s movie about a woman unjustly committed to an insane asylum as I recall.
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  8. But as the line in the Clint Eastwood film goes, where the bad guy's knife is sticking in the back of the setup, clearly indicating he was framed, "...but that's difficult to prove".
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  9. “They had learned nothing and forgotten nothing.” - Talleyrand on the nobility in post [pre]-revolutionary France.
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  10.  @BOTSamJ  Yeah I'm not in the service but I visited South Dakota for two days, became domiciled there, and using the Fed tax exclusion paid zero income tax for several years. My laptop was my office and I paid no income tax in the foreign country either. Good while it lasted. Now I'm back in VA and paying taxes up the wazoo. Good luck.
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  11. thanks for this heartfelt response. btw you offended me and I reported you to youtube. you've been cancelled...
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  12. You would be surprised how quickly a government authority will crack down on you if you practice law without a license... believe me, the government is NOT lazy and inefficient when it comes down to protecting their turf...
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  13. It's true. From the law school I flunked, I vaguely recall you can appeal any decision from a lower court, even before a final judgement by that court, to the "Supreme Court" of New York. Weird rules in NY state, one reason their bar exam has such low pass rates.
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  14. I think Louis is rich enuf...and why would a rich person aside from Louis do this? Rock the boat for what reason? Anybody who is doing business in NYC knows better than to make waves for no clear reason. Maybe some libertarian or right-wing thinktank might but not an ordinary rich person.
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  15. Louis Rossman is Charlie Brown and the Man is Lucy, taking away the football.
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  16. Actually somebody got prosecuted once for aggressively using a bot to phone someone, akin to what you are suggesting, so I wouldn't recommend that.
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  17. And arrested for disturbing the peace? Not sure if that's a felony...Googling it now..."Disturbing the peace can be classified as a “wobbler” crime, meaning it can be either a misdemeanor or a felony depending on the prosecutor"...ah, cool.
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  18. You're immune to the B.S., good for you.
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  19. Also donate to your representatives. Cheaper than hiring a lawyer.
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  20. Yeah it could be worse...like living in Haiti. That's a good litmus test.
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  21. "just because I'm paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get me"- says ChatGPT
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  22. Yeah people don't realize how invaluable congress constituent services are. I donate often to my representatives, it's cheaper than hiring a lawyer.
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  23.  @KnoxOnTopProductions  No precedent if the opinion is published without precedent value. We once won a suit vs a public entity that is government sponsored and the judge did that...made the decision so it could not be cited as precedent, no doubt to save the defendant money in the future in similar situations (we were told we'd never win, but we did, and it was not a contingency fee lawsuit either, but we funded it ourselves; it was an adverse possession suit)
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  24. Makes sense...reading legal notices in the back of dead tree newspapers is a popular activity.
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  25. You have extra rights as a serviceperson. Also consider becoming a resident of a no-tax state like South Dakota if you want to avoid state income tax while working overseas.
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  26. It's enough to make you become a libertarian...maybe not in NYC tho.
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  27.  @robertsmith2956  Last I checked, the guy who tried to pay his bill in pennies by dumping them on the front lawn of Town Hall rather than with a check got dumped on...figuratively speaking. "You can't fight City Hall" made sense in the 1950s and even more so today. I saw a stat that in G7 countries government is about 50% of GDP, meaning the other 50% is supporting them.
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  28. Dream on. Government has gone from less than 10% of GDP in Hoover's time to nearly 50% now, and the USA/Japan are actually at the low end among developed countries (the Scandy countries are closer to 60%).
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  29. And if you're paying less than $12k a year in property taxes for an old wooden house like here in the DC suburbs, consider yourself blessed.
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  30. Small farms are also regulated. For example, in the small farm I sponsor in south Europe, technically we are violating the law every time we exsanguinate a chicken or sheep, and that farm dog we shot since it went crazy and attacked one of our livestock (sometimes dogs just do crazy stuff)? Well that last one qualifies for prison time if caught. Animal rights ya'know.
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  31. It's capitalism, Thatcher style. The free market will sort it all out, eventually...
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  32. lol indeed...ain't happenening
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  33. Saw that some journalist used his muckraker skills to set up a small business where he will go to bat for you, "Eyewitness News" style, to get maximum unfavorable publicity to win your case.
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