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From: warren@ihnss.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.taxes
Subject: Re: WAR TAX RESISTANCE
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Date: Thu, 19-Jan-84 15:25:10 EST
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Our tax system (and for that matter our legal system) is full of
loop holes to be tried.  In the final analysis, however, as long as
the government makes the rules and decides that people should pay
taxes, any attempt to get around this through loopholes is bound to
fail.  This goes for legal nitpicking on the definitions of income
and taxes, tax-shelters, and all other dodges.

If you really want to pay less in taxes, or avoid supporting
government spending in areas that you don't approve of, I suggest
investigating and supporting the libertarian party, which doesn't
believe in either taxes or government spending for the most part. 
Neither of our major parties cope with this problem at all, they
simply shift who they tax and what they spend it on.  (This is NOT
an endorsement, and by all means move any flames or discussions on
this to net.politics, not here.  Net.politics had some lively
debates on this in the past.)  Attacking the tax system with legal
quibbles is a fruitless excercise, doomed to failure.

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	Warren Montgomery
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