BS. That was sales tax and Amazon collected it directly on checkout. It was no hassle at all.
No. Look it up. They didn't collect state sales tax for years. For example they started collecting CA state sales tax in 2012.
States argued that (if Amazon had a physical presence in the state) but this was disputed because it violates the interstate commerce clause and the States only got their way by getting Amazon to deduct the taxes.
We are not talking about an ambiguous issue like that. The IRS has made it very clear what the culpability is.
In many states, residents were required by law to track and report their Amazon purchases for tax purposes. It did not stop people from using Amazon. Are you really trying to dispute this?
I just gave you a counterexample where a similar burden was ostensibly placed on people and they just didn't care. The market decided the Amazon product was compelling enough to either track their purchases or risk the consequence of not reporting them.
If you want to tell me some crucial difference between tracking Amazon purchases and tracking bitcoin purchases, go ahead.
As for my software qualifications and your rant about going to prison for not paying a few hundred bucks in taxes: I just took you off ignore *today*, I regret it already.