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From: dr_d@sftig.UUCP (D.Donahue)
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Subject: Re: 5th Amendment protection and Tax Rebels
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Date: Wed, 5-Mar-86 08:52:18 EST
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> From: mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (MKR)
> 
> 	It has been my experience that the people who rant'n'rave against
> income taxes and the IRS usually don't know what they're talking about.
> They never have any viable alternatives to offer. I suspect that they just
> get sore over having to pay their money to support commie-pinko welfare when
> everybody knows we'd all be better off by just setting all the minorities
> adrift on ice floes.

I'm certain that this was some sort of attempt at humor. However, as far as
I'm concerned, I'd just as soon set you on the ice flow and push it toward
the equator! Get my drift?

> 
> 	I agree that there are abuses and excesses involved in the IRS and
> tax collection, as there are in ANY large-scale operation. But the people
> who seize upon these isolated incidents and blow them way out of proportion
> have usually turned out to be neo-Nazi types like the Posse Comitatus, and
> I'm sorry, but I just *can't* take those people's arguments seriously.

I suppose that you supported Nixon and his illeagal war in Cambodia at the time
as well! For that matter, I suppose that you'll accuse the Aquino adminstration
of as much for their effort to recover their funds also.

Doug Donahue
AT&T Information Systems
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