I also think anyone who follows this advice without consulting the type of high priced tax lawyers who can keep one out of prison is being incredibly foolish.
There are plenty of legal ways to starve government. Those who are self employed could consider taking on less work and presumably less taxable income. We could also reduce non-essential purchases to deprive states of sales tax revenue.
The only downside to these activities is that they do not actually reduce government spending. The feds will simply print or borrow more money, and the states will find other methods of creative accounting to burden future generations with the costs of the selfishness of the people of today.
I believe that they passed legislation awhile back that if you mistate your dependents and end up owing over a certain percentage of the total, penalties and interest for the entire year kick in (at the least.)
The upside is the debt-to-income ratio,
funny thing while researching revenues;
2009 United States federal budget
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_United_States_federal_budget
The United States federal budget for fiscal year 2009 was a spending request by President George W. Bush to fund government operations for October 2008-September 2009.
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September 2009? Still Bush’s fault President Øbama and his Democrat Congress 4X the debt