The message from the courts is clear, when it comes to taxes there is no reasonable argument, there is no mercy and there is no questioning the IRS. America fell by the wayside somehow...God Bless Wesley Snipes for being a good American standing up for what he believed in and trying to restore liberty. His defiance is heroic on an epic level. He has everything to lose and he chose to risk it for freedom’s sake.
Wesley Snipes has an interesting defense to his federal tax charges -- none!
As is readily discernible from the above, neither Snipes nor his attorneys even attempted anything like "reasonable argument."
There was nothing heroic about what Snipes did. As much as I may disagree with Joan Baez withholding her taxes in the 60s as an anti-war protest, what she did was done on principle. Snipes tried to cheat on his taxes and got caught, THEN brought up various very weak anti-tax arguments.
Snipes and his Hollywood cronies support the tax-raising party. They want you and me to pay the taxes to pay for all their do-good programs, while they shift their millions of dollars in income offshore. Not a damned thing heroic here. It’s the very definition of elitism.
Highly doubt it was done for the reasons you've assigned to him.