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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (15575)	9/4/2001 12:00:30 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 59480

Tax avoidance refers to the perfectly legal practice of using the tax laws to minimize your tax liability. Giving advice in tax avoidance is a trillion dollar industry (which is enough alone to insure that the tax code will remain unjust). But you are correct, the fear of punishment causes many to eschew tax avoidance and thereby pay more tax than they should, just to remove the risk of entangling themselves with the coercive, potentially abusive, tax collection bureaucracy. Perhaps some people refrain from tax avoidance due to the fear of sanctions, but most of us are just law abiding citizens.........

To: Neocon who wrote (15575)	9/4/2001 12:15:08 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

You analogy of purse snatching with tax evasion is inapt for several reasons. The vast majority of citizens believe the state should enforce laws against theft, especially theft accompanied by assault. I contend the vast majority of citizens think the Federal tax laws are unjust, for very good reason - they are. I don't practice nor recommend tax evasion. That is wrong. I cite the widespread predilection for doing it as evidence that the tax laws are corrupt and unjust. The fact that the unjust tax laws go uncorrected year after year despite the demand of citizens for relief is disturbing evidence that our Representative Democracy, in this case, is NOT working.