Of course people try to avoid paying tax, I can't blame them for that. If you invest $50,000 in crypto, which is money you (likely) paid tax over numerous times already, and again be forced to pay tax, it's going to feel like you are being robbed (even more so than the previous time you paid tax over the same amount of money). It's a legal form of theft that you indirectly try to justify right now -- people avoiding tax aren't doing anything other than protecting their capital from money hungry authorities. I am actually shocked to see you speak out like that. Do you seriously believe that if the tax rates were appropriate and humane, that people would even consider avoid paying "due" taxes? Seriously, this actually angers me....