While I applaud the maximum sentence he received, he deserved a lot more. As much as I hate paying income tax, it is something we all must do. If we want to change the laws to get rid of the income tax, we can work within the system to do it. Until then, we have to obey the law.
Putting anyone in jail for tax evasion, felony or not, for life IS criminal.
Yeah your one of the sheep. The income is not going away with your kind of thinking. the Income tax is slavery. If the founders thought like you America would have never come into being. Its time for people to resist the income tax and if needed be willing to go to prison or die fighting it. You think the government in league with the banks are just going to give up the income tax? Your dreaming.
A big sheeps bleat Baaaaaaaaah for you.
Uuuuhhh....Snipes is liberal Hollywood elitist celebrity who has no idea why he is liberal. He’s clueless and just went along because his Hollywood crowd were all liberal too.
Now he experienced the power of the STATE that he unleashed. Wesley: They’ll taze you bro!
You gave money to leftists who raised the taxes that you tried to avoid...you reap what you sow.
Yes indeedy, let’s send him to prison for life so the taxpayers can support him, the no good...,...wait...
Despite my screenname, I have never evaded taxes. But no one should be sentenced to prison for tax evasion. If convicted in a court of law, seizure of assets - enough to cover the amount of tax owed - should suffice.
Prison for life?
Really?
For not paying taxes for three years?
Good grief.
Why should we tolerate stealing because it is the law.
If the law said you could not own guns how many would obey?
This country went to war with England about “The Law”
The law will be obeyed when it is just.
Remember - Against The Law to Sell Alcohol.
Poppycock. What if the law required you to something like bow to meter maids or beat your children. Down with tyranny.
I can't even begin to understand the mindset that would want to see another individual sent to prison for life for failure to pay their taxes. Statism is alive and well I see.
Would you have wanted the tax protesters of 18th century America thrown into prison for life as well?
The IRS should be considered an abomination to any freedom loving individual.
I guess those who carried out the Boston Teaparty should have “worked within the system” to change things instead of making a stand against what they knew was unjustified. Yeah, okay.
Just because something is “the law” doesn’t mean it should be obeyed. What is right and what is legal can be two very different things. More often than not, much of the system and it’s laws are purely self-serving to those in power, and everyone else (i.e., the actual citizenry) is perceived as a means/resources to it’s own ends. This has certainly become the case in this liberty-starved country.
Maybe if enough people actually stood up like Snipes did, and stopped handing over tribute to the extortionist thugs called the US Federal Government, then some real change might start happening. But so long as everyone tacitly goes along with this rampant theft because “it’s the law,” then this will continue indefinitely no matter how much anyone dislikes it.
Oh, and it’s really odd to see so many conservatives celebrating a tax protester getting thrown in prison. I don’t care what his politics are, liberal or not. Nobody deserves to get thrown in jail for not paying taxes. It’s completely unnecessary and cruel.
No, you can't, n00b.
For life?????
LIFE???
I advocate the death sentence for Snipes, proceeded by the torture of being dipped in boiling oil for him and his entire family and everyone who ever lived within 20 miles radius of him house.
We should also nuke the site from orbit.
It's the only way to be sure.
Starve the beast!