Homestead mailing list

[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> I am sure you are aware that quite a few others reciting the same legal 
> precedents as you do, but chose to become highly visible to the IRS. found 
> to their sorrow that they had to pay taxes---any taxes assessed  by the 
> Feds, States, Counties and Municipalities, Water Authorities et.al. or 
> have their property seized, and in the case of the Federal  Income Tax , 
> the high-profile dum-dum,s get free rent in a Federal Prison.

Again and again someone who thinks they are smarter than the rest of us 
quotes arcane law to show that they don't have to pay income taxes and, by 
implication, that we are stupid to do so. And again and again, if the IRS 
chooses to go after them, they end up broke or in prison or both.

I don't like taxes more than anyone else. I also don't like tax cheats. Tax 
cheats force law-abiding citizens to pay the cheats' share. If we condone 
dishonesty in those we know on a personal level, then we have no authority 
to condemn dishonesty in public figures.