declaring coins to the IRS?

[christop]

Ok, this for you guys who think you're getting "free money" from the government when you file your tax returns:

Give your employer a new W-4 to withhold $1000 from each paycheck. When you file your taxes next year you'll get like $52000 (or only $26000 if you're paid every two weeks) from the government! Who could pass up such an awesome deal?!

But seriously, if you're getting a lot back it just means you paid the government too much last year. I would rather have to owe the government a little bit than to get a lot of money back. You can obviously afford to put about $7000 ($583 per month) into a savings account or under your mattress in one year, so you could easily send in a couple hundred dollars at tax time if you didn't withhold quite enough during the year.

[Sage]

If you're living in a country with taxes, you are receiving the benefits of various public goods. If you don't think this is the case, go live in a tax haven - but if you're living in a first world country and not paying those taxes you are free-riding and morally in the wrong. Don't do that.

...Oh how naive to think the money from the income tax goes to any of the public goods.

Never forget, with enough careful brainwashing humans can be made to believe anything.

[Sage]

So considering that we have a totally immoral Government. I firmly believe that is immoral to support it in any possible way, thus paying taxes. Taxes are the measure from which government derives power (money). If you cut the ability to a state to tax on people, it will collapse in time. Aritotle, Ghandi and Karl Marx (and many others) had all the same view: If you believe your government is illegal, avoid paying taxes.

Best Regards,

knives

Big +

Civil disobedience folks....

Where is the line for you?  When those drones they are deploying actually start killing people on US soil??? (Why else would they be deploying them if that reality isn't in the future?)

My line was crossed long ago, and I can't imagine any ethical, moral human with any kind of intellect choosing to support that system once they have become fully informed.

...Get fully informed, then have the courage to make the moral (and dangerous) choice.

At the end of the day you gotta look yourself in the mirror.  Are you proud of what's looking back?  Or did you cower because of convenience, comfort, or safety?