Wesley Snipes may face 16 years jail over tax offences

[Thac0man]

This quote is priceless:

Schiff's lawyers had argued that he had a mental disorder related to his beliefs about taxation.

That sort of sums up Russo too. Though Aaron Russo cannot be dismissed as a right wing nut, his idiology has alot in common with the non establishment far right in America, who are anti-government, anti-tax etc etc.

Here is a decent article on the No Tax movement in America, even if its on the ADL website:
http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/TPM....cked=4&item=21

To quote:

Origins: 1950s
Background: An anti-government movement that believes that income taxes are illegitimate
Ideology: Anti-government, some white supremacist elements
Outreach: Books, manuals, seminars, radio shows, Web sites
Favorite arguments: Filing tax returns violates Fifth Amendment rights; the Sixteenth Amendment was never properly ratified; wages are not income; income taxes are voluntary; income taxes apply only to residents of Washington, D.C., and certain other limited areas
Criminal activity: Overall level of criminal activity is high, consisting mostly of attempts at tax evasion. Some tax protesters have engaged in large-scale scams and frauds. Violent incidents are also well-documented.

[Thac0man]

I don't think they will send Snipes to jail, they will just cryogenically freeze him like in Demolition Man so he is awoken in the far future to face the interest on his tax bill.

[seabhcan]

There are State and local income taxes in America, aren't there? I've never heard an objection to those.

If the EU granted itself the right to tax people directly, I imagine people here would object in much the same way as the anti-federal tax people in the US, and others would call them nuts.

[lostexpectation]

was reading about some creationist preacher who get sent to jail over not paying his taxes kent hovind. thought god would sort it out

[The OD]

From what I hear the US tax people are starkers. They regularly raid people's homes armed to the teeth.

Thank god the good people at revenue.ie are more civilized.

Says a lot about the differences between Irish culture and US culture I suppose?

[NotDevsSon]

was reading about some creationist preacher who get sent to jail over not paying his taxes kent hovind. thought god would sort it out

[seabhcan]

Snipes jailed for 3 years

Medja oddly quiet on this.

[Aindriu]

From what I hear the US tax people are starkers. They regularly raid people's homes armed to the teeth.

Thank god the good people at revenue.ie are more civilized.

Yeah right! They just let people evade paying tax for years

[Aindriu]

He has been given 3 years link