From: Randy Smith (randysmith101@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Nov 24 2000 - 11:39:30 MST
>From: "Michael S. Lorrey" <mlorrey@datamann.com>
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
>To: extropians@extropy.org
>Subject: Re: Two great articles on ignoring government
>Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 11:52:02 -0500
>
>Randy Smith wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/18/business/19TAX.html
> > >This is an article about how several companies are refusing to take
>income
> > >tax, social security, and medicaire deductions from their employees'
> > >paychecks. They are also refusing to report their employees' incomes to
>the
> > >IRS. So far, they all seem to have gotten away with it, according to
>this
> > >article. My favorite parts of the article:
> >
> > I don't agree with not paying taxes. It's true that gov't is not as good
>as
> > it could be, but it really what brought us to the dance, that and
>science.
> > What we need to do is make gov't OUR servant, instead of the other way
> > around.
>
>The argument is that the income tax is unconstitutional as a mandatory
>system. People pay it voluntarily.
Th "...promote the general welfare..." clause covers all that, I believe.
Besides, who says the constitution is all that great, anyway. We need to
change it.
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