I am Mr. Law and Order, but whenever I use the services of someone who is self employed (mechanic, carpenter, barber, etc.)I pay them in cash if at all possible. I couldn’t care less whether they report it on their taxes or not. All of my income is entirely too documented to anything shady.
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.
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.