Posted on 01/29/2008 1:06:35 PM PST by george76
Edited on 01/29/2008 2:53:41 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Even Hollywood couldn't have written a more ideal script for the Internal Revenue Service than actor Wesley Snipes' tax-fraud trial.
At a time when millions of Americans are buckling down to prepare their taxes, Snipes is being cast as a villainous example of the dangers of joining with Internet-fueled activists who claim the IRS has no authority to collect taxes.
I’m afraid that iagree with Snipes
Wesley Snipes: All Kinds Of Crazy
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0114082snipes1.html
“Nobody likes paying taxes, but paying taxes is the price we pay to live in a civilized society,”
anybody look around lately? the more we pay the worse it gets!
Russians pay 13%? Maybe we just switch with them, give them our flags and Constitution and let them have it while we take their stuff and become communist like the democrats seem to what to have us duplicate.
The DNC’s motto: The only reason communism did not work is because the government did not have enough money.
This is the “change” thing they are all running on. Remember Kennedy’s endorsement of Obama and Clinton - we need to change America.
Now you know.
Didn’t someone actually win one of these recently?
Not that I recall.
There was this :
a New Hampshire tax protester vowed to die fighting rather than be apprehended following criminal conviction on several tax charges.
Brown and his wife were taken peacefully, but only after agents tricked the couple into surrender.
Yep, I think Rome taxed itself out of being a society.
The people that want communism should go live in a communistic country.
“Didn’t someone actually win one of these recently?”
I believe it was Tom Cryer.
Yes. I think an attorney in LA just smoked the IRS.
You may be referring to a case, the name escapes me, where an employer paid his employees either in $50 gold pieces or in pre-64 silver coins, both calculated at face value. I am not sure what the advantage was; perhaps the employess would work for far less since the “face” value of what they were being paid since their gorss numbers would probably be vastly smaller than “normal” or even below taxable limits. The $50 gold pieces, being an ounce of gold, were worth north of $800 each (at the time of payment) and are worth about $920. today. $1 of junk silver coins is worth roughly $11.75. What I don’t see is the advantage to the payor/employer.
OMG .. Heaven forbid that someone should actually question being robbed at gunpoint for a POS government that takes your $$$ and burns it on the poor, pi$$es it away on the mortgages of the financially incompetent, wastes it on inefficient and useless war and gives it to african AIDS thugs and Palestinian terrorists while calling it foreign aid. And they give it to the church of global bunk warming to the tune of 2 billion dollars. I'm not even trying to think of other ways the federal government wastes our $$.
We, the taxpayers, are SICK of financing stupid people.
The problem with communists is, they think under communism, they will be in charge. The elite with everything.
They forget they are not in charge here for the same reason, they will not be in charge there.
Thank God we don’t get all the government we pay for.
The people that want communism should go live in a communistic country.
the good ole USA has become the last bastion of Commie true believers. what a joke, mt parents fled the USSR during the war to get away from that crap. i’m glad they’re not with us anymore to see this sh!t.
Thank God we don’t get all the government we pay for.
Amen!
Not mentioned:
Snipes also bounced a $$$ multi-million dollar bad check on the IRS.
That probably didn’t help him much.
“Locks are important on windows to keep honest men from becoming thieves,” Cohen [former IRS Commissioner] said.
Well, there is the height of bureaucratic arrogance. Since we are all likley to become thieves, the IRS sees a need to make trials, like Wesley Snipes’, showcases of their muscle.
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