RE: "Give us your money or we'll shoot", was Poll (US posters only)

[Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM]

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Ronn Blankenship
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> Verzonden: Thursday, July 26, 2001 2:05 PM
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> Onderwerp: "Give us your money or we'll shoot", was Poll (US posters
> only)

> I was exaggerating a bit when earlier I compared taxes to theft, but .
> . . if you don't pay them, those nice friendly people in blue (or
> khaki, if they're from the county sheriff's department) uniforms WITH 
> GUNS on their belts or elsewhere come and drag you off to prison for
> tax evasion, and if you don't go meekly, they will use whatever
> "persuasion" is necessary to get you to go with them, so that a sense
> the government _is_ holding a gun to your head and saying "give us your
> money or we'll shoot".

Those guns don't impress me, especially since that government study last
year (or maybe the year before that), that showed that our police officers
get so little shooting practice that many couldn't even shoot at an elephant
and hit it if the animal was standing right in front of them...   <grin>

Not much persuasion is needed, anyway. The small-time tax evaders end up
paying their taxes and a fine (and ocassionally serve a few months of jail
sentence), and the big-time tax evaders flee the country before the police
gets a chance to arrest them.


Jeroen

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