> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Ronn Blankenship
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Verzonden: Thursday, July 26, 2001 12:34 PM
> Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Onderwerp: RE: Poll (US posters only)
> >Different interpretation of "forcibly". You read it as "force of law",
> >while I used "forcibly" in the meaning of "violently".
> >
> >I don't consider taxes a form of theft, since no force (violence) is
> >used to get me to pay taxes; the government doesn't hold a gun to my
> >head and say "give us your money or we'll shoot".
>
>
> What would happen if you refused to pay?
Don't know; I've always paid my taxes... :-)
Most of it is income tax, which goes directly from my employer to the state,
so non-payment of taxes is to a large extent impossible anyway.
But seriously: if you refuse to pay, the government comes knocking on your
door, urgently asking you to pay your taxes. If you kindly refuse anyway
(repeatedly), they eventually stop being nice, and call it tax evasion, in
which case those nice friendly people in blue uniforms will come and drag
you to prison.
> >Don't know who the IRS collects taxes, though... <grin>
>
>
> IRS = "Internal (or Infernal) Revenue Service": the agency of the US
> government responsible for collecting the income tax.
I knew that... :-)
(That other sentence should have read "don't know *how* the IRS <etcetera>".
Darn typo... :-)
Jeroen
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