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The government has many ways of extracting tax in these cases, ranging from periodic audits with heavy penalties (which keep people honest)...
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Particularly at the corporate level, the notion that cryptography will allow widespread tax cheating seems especially questionable.
I don't want to leave unquestioned this implied linkage between honesty and paying taxes, between not paying taxes and ``cheating''. Sure, for some, like those Italians mentioned by Perry who willfully accept the benefits of taxation when they have reasonable alternatives, such a linkage would apply. The legitimate tax resister, however, is simply someone who declines the offer made to him: ``I don't want your steenking benefits, and I'm not liable for your steenking debts. I'm certainly not responsible for any _compelled_ benefits.'' I see nothing honest about willfully paying taxes to, or otherwise cooperating with, any institution which, by expropriating the fruits of the toil of unconsenting victims through taxation, has stolen more wealth than any other criminal organization ever seen on the face of the earth. John E. Kreznar | Relations among people to be by jkreznar@ininx.com | mutual consent, or not at all. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a iQCVAgUBLTX7VMDhz44ugybJAQH+UwQAgKGSVIvkj+OMxdxiTB2eCHutgc8Y4VX8 ldlhpjwP1wyW8IpqKe8Pd/Qim9FWFjKMQaKhpK7UOMTQQ17+hthW+xMHJJ60oEZA uZy2rCMQ8wnxb6x2YlCgu2RUXCaoYrIN2AnPslqUyfhXktdpr8AuJHh2+XuGAKyM rvP86VLgILg= =x0OB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----