I've seen it posted on here a few times and I'm sure I'll see more of it. I have heard it from some people who I would otherwise have thought intelligent. Isn't everyone required to read the Constitution in school?
2007-10-26 15:57:27 · 7 answers · asked by Gypsy Girl 7 in Business & Finance ➔ Taxes ➔ United States
The great thing about the internet is the quick transfer of information around the country and around the globe. It is a double edged sword because mis-information can be spread just as quickly. I am afraid that this is just something that we will just have to live with.
Tax Protesters have been around as long as the income tax but, until recently, they had a very small audience because you had to go out of your way to find it. Two things happened in the 90s: 1) The internet (see above); and 2) Congress ordered the IRS to be "Kinder and Gentler". Tax cheats were not pursued as vigorously and they could get the word out fast as to what they were doing and that they weren't being prosecuted. Things have changed. The IRS got mean again and Tax Protesters are getting their due.
2007-10-26 16:58:13 · answer #1 · answered by Wayne Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same arguments have been made and been shot down for decades. The people that want to believe them are not satisfied with anything that does not suit them and that the truth is what they want it to be. They are fools. All we can do it dump on them when the pose the same old questions. If they try it in US Tax Court, under Section 6673 of the Internal Revenue Code, they can have their tax bill increased by as much as $25,000 for maintaining a frivolous position (also known as pissing off the judge.)
2007-10-27 00:52:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are fools in every quarter. Not a lot we can do about that. But consider this. Every time one of those yahoos posts such a question, one or two "believers" are probably convinced of the reality that taxes are completely legal and abandons their stupidity. We can only hope.
Even so, there are fools who will ignore incontrovertible proof of anything and maintain their cockamamie position. Case in point: The Flat Earth Society.
2007-10-27 05:50:22 · answer #3 · answered by Bostonian In MO 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately, the tax protestors will always post their stupid arguments.
A few months ago, I asked the tax protestors to show where there arguments actually worked. I'm still waiting for an answer. For some reason, they went strangely silent.
My question is below.
2007-10-27 07:47:50 · answer #4 · answered by Steve 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people just believe whatever they want to believe.
There are people who believe that nobody landed on the moon, and the the Holocaust didn't happen.
2007-10-27 08:53:14 · answer #5 · answered by Judy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would think the most effective way to convince them is the stint in federal prison that they earn for tax evasion.
2007-10-26 23:05:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Can't stop them, but we can ignore them.
2007-10-27 13:13:12 · answer #7 · answered by r_kav 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋