Quote from: NotLambchop on December 18, 2014, 08:14:30 PM

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No. You have failed to answer my previous question, and I unjustly attributed it to evasiveness. In my haste, I overlooked the possibility of you being differently enabled & suffering from poor reading comprehension. Along with your delusions of persecution.
Apologies.
I've highlighted the important bits this time, in hopes that it may somehow help:

Quote from: NotLambchop on December 18, 2014, 06:03:33 PM

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So no one has put a gun to your head, you're simply afraid that someone will. Now we're finally getting somewhere, let's take this a step at a time.
Do you personally know someone who was shot for failing to pay taxes?
My previous question still stands: What God-forsaken foregny you hail from?

You're trying to answer two questions, so that we could continue our conversation.
Good luck!

Sorry to interject, but here in America there are very serious problems with being caught evading taxes. The first thing they do is freeze your assets which directly prevents you from accessing any sort of money anywhere (except Bitcoin of course since no central authority can be directed) and they can take it all if you are convicted (obviously they can take Bitcoin given the recent auctions though not sure how they get the keys), but it gets more serious. Recent police shootings involved people who were selling goods without paying taxes on them and I recall at least one case where a man refused to pay taxes, was held up in his survivalist compound, and the FBI used obnoxious music to try and force him out.

That is an extreme example though. More commonly the penalty for tax evasion is 5 years in prison per count, though sometimes as low as 6 months. It's very easy to get life in prison for failing to pay taxes and this guy got 9 years in prison for not paying up. European courts seem to be more lenient.

The exception is that some people don't make enough money to owe on income taxes. In that case you don't have to report anything, but should still keep records in case you are audited. Another exception is that you have to live within 20 miles of a federal office building to owe taxes and people have successfully had their tax bills challenged in these cases. Of course, even a post office is considered a federal office building. When I lived in Canada I actually had to pay taxes to BOTH the United States and Canada because I lived within 20 miles to the US Embassy in Halifax.

I really don't mind the taxes personally, but I would prefer the Fair Tax system because in that system we only would pay taxes when we spend money which would tax everyone equally. Then again, that would mean that we would have to integrate a sales tax system into Bitcoin transactions to remain legitimate and I'm not really sure how we would do that.