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You'd think, if that were the case, that at least one person would have been killed for not paying their taxes in U.S. history. Can you cite a single example? O
by abalone 10y ago
You'd think, if that were the case, that at least one person would have been killed for not paying their taxes in U.S. history. Can you cite a single example? Otherwise you're employing empty rhetoric.
- brbsix 10y agoEric Garner
- abalone 10y agoGiven the couple hundred million people who are compelled to pay taxes every year, if they truly faced a "comply or die" ultimatum you would expect over the decades to see thousands (at a minimum) of killings. Eric Garner and quite a few others are terrible examples of police brutality that minorities face in the enforcement of what should normally be non-lethal actions under any circumstances, even total non-compliance. Lethality here is a method of racial and/or class suppression, not so much enforcement of specific laws (e.g. jaywalking, loitering, cigarette tax compliance).