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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
The polls are rotten and corrupted by special interests, many would say. Nothing can be done to cure the ills of DC. The only avenue Snipes had was to do what he did, etc.
Of course, his case was insane, and he is a fool. But the millions who would quietly siphon what was otherwise taxable into their own pockets can't be prosecuted like Snipes. I'm not talking about widespread massive fraud. I'm talking about people en masse, millions of them, learning to keep small amounts of money Uncle Sam would otherwise receive. It's been happening for years and years, you might say, but when things get as tight as they will and people like Steve Forbes, Glenn Beck and Ron Paul, and the "Wikipedia knowledge" impact of the internet are done saturating the tax disobedience and how-you-can-get-away-with-a-lot-more-than-you-are messages on John Q. Public, I think we're going to see him utilizing knowledge Uncle Sam never figured he'd have, and it will be a serious problem.
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It's already a serious problem. The tax gap is billions of dollars. And your argument that the govenrment is flawed, therefore all citizens are entitled to ignore the law is troublesome on a number of levels.
I assume you're just jacking with me. I can't believe that you're really as amoral as you are claiming to be for purposes of this discussion.
