I hope your house burns down, or you die in the street after being hit by a car, or some other fate
It's funny how often those that preach collectivist principles always end up calling for someone to die. Isn't it?
Once you get over the "crabs in a bucket" thing, yes.
How is judging others as criminals an argument for breaking the law yourself?
As the OP, I assume that you are addressing me... Correct me if I'm wrong.
You're making some wrong assumptions. I haven't broken any laws at all. However, I'm a bit of an edge case and by far not typical of most people.
This is a funny thread: You hate government control and taxes, you believe that officials are corrupt, you are a libertarian, so you agree to the notion of government, unless you are an ancap ideologist, so it's ok to be corrupt yourself? You like infrastructure, but you don't have to pay because you are smart enough to evade tax?
I'll leave that alone as you're making some wild assumptions with no basis.
Isn't that a part of the attraction of bitcoin? You can AVOID tax? And as for "realized gains", why not just sell your bitcoins offline to some person willing to show up at a coffee shop and pay cash?
No, the the attraction of Bitcoins is fast global payments an order of magnitude cheaper than anything else.
Of course you should pay taxes if your investment pays off.
Well, I can't disagree with it being a fantastic payment system.
But as for paying taxes... Why should anyone pay taxes that they don't need to? It's not that hard to get around a lot of tax laws. Yet still, there are many thread with people clambering to cough up when there are many, many ways for them to legally get around it.
A lot of people seem to think that there's no way around tax. Ahem... Google... Ireland... Ring a bell anyone?
It's income just like anything else and that's what makes society work. If I had lived outside society I would statistically not have had the opportunity to learn about this stuff, let alone own a computer.
And the current society is the ONLY one possible? There are no alternatives? Everything has been explored, and we've arrived at the pinnacle?
I find that rather unlikely.
I'm not saying that it's easy to think outside the box. But it seems like a lot of people really, really love the box.
(how do you propose to pay that tax in btc exactly? Does the IRS have a Bitcoin wallet now that I'm unaware of?).
Quite correct. BTC is not something that you *CAN* pay taxes in (the US).