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Originally Posted by Makedde
No I don't. Paying taxes is the law, and anyone who deliberately evades this is committing a crime, and should be punished.
In the case of Snipes, he make a choice NOT to file his tax returns - he deliberately evaded the system, and for that he should be punished.
If his appeal is successful, and his sentence reduced to probation, what sort of message does that send? That it's okay not to file tax returns?
Like it or not, we have to pay taxes. I for one, hate paying taxes, I don't think I should have to, eithor, but I would never intentionally avoid paying taxes, because sooner or later, I'd be caught.
Snipes is not sorry for what he did, he is only sorry for getting caught, and the fact he has only now -after being arrested and charged and realising the deep (*)(*)(*)(*) he was in - offered to pay back the money. To me, that's not good enough. That just shows he thinks that paying the money back will excuse the crime, and it doesn't, and nor should it.
IMO, he deserves everything he gets.
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I agree with this. It's funny to me - you and I are both Australian and on this and other forums I'm on it seems Australians generally do share the same views regarding tax. That is to say, sure, it's a pain, but you can't bite the hand that feeds you. Our tax goes towards looking after our country. Pretty simple, not a problem. I don't have an issue with it.
I am yet to find this attitude amongst Americans. I know a few US citizens who agree, but mostly tax seems to be such a huge subject for complaint amongst Americans. Sounds to me like they want to have their cake and eat it, too.
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Originally Posted by Makedde
I don't know who the IRS are, I'm not America, so I don't know. I am not sure if we have similar people here who avoid paying taxes. I don't think the polititians pay taxes, and I think they should. If I have to pay, then so should they.
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Politicians pay tax. Everyone has to. Nobody is above the tax laws!
I don't have a problem with it, seriously. There are a lot of benefits I enjoy in daily life because I pay tax. It's all good as far as I'm concerned.
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Originally Posted by Koga
No, I think I should be able to break the law because the law is crap.
It'd be like saying it should be mandatory to rape a three year old girl. That's sick, depraved, and shouldn't be tolerated. Saying "no" and refusing to take part should be the least we're willing to do...
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By your own logic, if you decided that raping a three-year-old girl was something you felt like doing, you'd just go ahead and do it, because you'd think the laws against it were crap. Nice.
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You're what we in the Dungeons&Dragons community call lawful evil.
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What a shame you count yourself a member of that fine community. They are surely diminished by your participation.
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I'm just too aloof and anti-social to be good.
But not weak or stupid enough to be evil.
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I dunno - the more you post the more you demonstrate that your second description was pretty spot on.
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Originally Posted by Makedde
I don't believe everything the law says. If I disagree with the law, I may flaunt it, depending on how likely it is I would be caught.
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I think we all do that to some degree. I, for example, am not above crossing the street against the lights if there are no cops around.
