GUERRILLA CAPITALISM How to Practice Free Enterprise In an Unfree Economy ADAM CASH DEDICATION To the freedom of economic acts between consenting adults; and to all Guerrilla Capitalists everywhere. "To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush." — Dilwyn "Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time, and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against." — Carlyle "That government is best which govern—s least." Jefferson Digitized by the Internet Archive 2012 in http://archive.org/details/guerrillacapitalOOcash GUERRILLA EAPiJALISM How To Practice Free Enterprise In An Unfree Economy CASH 4C4/W Loompanics Unlimited Port Townsend, Washington GUERRILLA CAPITALISM ©1984 by Loompanics Unlimited All Rights Reserved Printed in U.S.A. Published by: Loompanics Unlimited PO Box 1197 WA Port Townsend, 98368 Typesetting and Layout by Patrick Michael Cover by Kevin Martin ISBN 0-915179-16-4 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 84-81910 Contents 1. Introduction 1 2. Taxes, Taxes, and More Taxes 5 3. How Big Is The Underground Economy? 9 4. Underground Economy People 13 5. The Underground Economy and You 19 6. Some Fundamentals 25 7. Starting Up: The Nuts and Bolts 29 8. Moonlighting 35 9. Case History: Bob, The Underground Diamond Dealer 39 10. Flea Markets, Conventions, Shows and Fairs 53 11. Garage and Yard Sales 57 12. Case History: Tom, The Underground Trucker 65 Home 13. Businesses 73 14. Direct Sales 77 15. Making Money from Your Hobby 81 16. Traps to Avoid: Make Money at Home Schemes 87 17. Case History: Don and Shirley's Underground Used Car Business 89 18. Barter 107 19. Starting Out in Bartering 113 20. Deal in Cash! 119 21. The Trouble With Banks 123 22. How Small Businessmen Fiddle the Books 127 23. What Guerrilla Capitalists Do with Their Unreported Income 133 24. The Face of The Enemy: A Quick Look at the I.R.S 139 How 25. the I.R.S. Plays "Gotcha" 145 26. Protecting Yourself from the I.R.S 151 27. Striking Back: Guerrilla Warfare Against the I.R.S 157 28. Recommended Reading 163