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Re: I didn't pay capital gains tax on bitcoin sales to IRS today
by
amspir
on 26/04/2014, 00:32:41 UTC

I contribute to society every day by working in the private sector. That's why people pay me VOLUNTARILY for what I do - they value my services more than what they are paying me - so it is a net gain for them to do business with me.

By "social services", what you really mean are "services paid for with extorted funds".

If I hold a gun to your head, and told you to pay me and I'll build you a website, would that be right of me even if I actually did build you a website? Of course not. Calling a gang that does the same thing "government" doesn't change the morality.

I just wanted to point out that you are making money from the Internet, which was initially developed by the Federal government of the United States, using income taxes "extorted" from us tax paying citizens.  Without the federal government's help, the network would have never gotten off the ground, because it took decades until it was profitable.  You can pretend that the internet would have developed without the government, but if it did, we be using set top boxes that only downloaded content from big businesses that could afford the economic barriers to become content providers.

You might find a different line of work if not being a hypocrite is important to you.