Don't you think you're contradicting yourself?
Tax evasion is a crime, then how can you legally commit a crime? I know that tax crimes in the USA have no statute of limitations.
he's not evading taxes. he's avoiding them by doing particular types of things which are legal...
and trust me, i'm sure the IRS knows about him. and looks over his tax returns every single year VERY CAREFULLY. oh, and he even invests some of his money into bitcoin among other things. as a side thing. care to guess who he is? i bet he is rolling around in tens of millions of dollars if not more in liquid fiat currency right now. and could buy anything he wanted. that type of thing.
It all depends on the system and its tasks. If the system does not fulfill its tasks, then it is bad for the state and good for the people.
And vice versa. After all, the interests of the state and the interests of people do not always coincide.
And the fact that the court gives longer prison sentences for tax crimes than for murder or similar crimes is a problem of your judicial system.
Well, the "state" and the people are not on an equal level. The state prints all the money. They print it and it immediately becomes valuable just because they printed it. and it looks nice and people can't easily make fake copies of it. does that sound like a very good system to you?
You and I live in different countries with different mentalities. In Russia, an average exchanger on the wholesale market in Moscow can change 10-20 million dollars in a day or half a day. Nobody pays taxes on this. A lot of goods come to Russia from China and Chinese sellers accept cryptocurrencies without any problems. If earlier merchants carried dollars across the border, now rarely anyone does this thanks to the introduction of cryptocurrencies.
If your friend cheated the tax system and tells his friends about it, then he is taking a city risk.
Thanks to cryptocurrencies, you can now print your own money.