Americans More Embarrassed To Be Caught Shoplifting Or Littering Than Cheating On Their Taxes

Forbes ^ | 03/30/2012 | Janet Novack

[dfwgator]

If you can become Treasury Secretary after cheating on taxes, what’s the big deal, anyway?

[GlockThe Vote]

Taxes are nothing more than control of people and theft. Why pay taxes when the govt can just print the money via the FED to the same effect?

THINK ABOUT WHAT I JUST SAID.

[running_dog_lackey]

-—5th Amendment...nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.-—

My money is my property. Unless the govt gives me something of equal value in compensation, I’m going to keep as much as I can.

[grumpygresh]

Caesar’s tax rate was a lot less than our current regime. Tax compliance is proportional to the respect for private property rights which includes the overall tax rate, government corruption, and stable rule of law. No surprise in which direction we are going here.

[freedumb2003]

>>One good crime deserves another?<<

I am not sure how you came away from my post with that conclusion.

In fact, I have no idea what you are talking about.

[cripplecreek]

In a nation with a long capitalist tradition like ours, they’ll never really be able to kill capitalism. They might drive it underground but once its taken root its like kudzu.

After all the blood and tears spent fighting and losing to communists in Vietnam, they’re effectively a capitalist nation even if the communist government can’t quite bring themselves to admit it. They call it social based capitalism or something. Entrepreneurship is actively encouraged as long as the government gets their cut.

[UnwashedPeasant]

"IRS Oversight Board’s 2011 Taxpayer Attitude Survey, 84% of the public said it is “not at all acceptable to cheat on one’s income taxes.’"

Not a valid statistic. If someone from the IRS asks a survey question about cheating on taxes, only an idiot would respond that cheating is OK.

[Tainan]

“Cheating” on your taxes...hell...that could be considered a civic duty.

[HereInTheHeartland]

A false choice to compare paying less taxes with criminal acts. It's everyone’s duty to pay as little taxes as possible.

[Clintonfatigued]

Probably because the government wastes the taxes they pay.

[fortheDeclaration]

Because every American taxpayer knows he is overtaxed!