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> There's no victim. Literally nobody was harmed here. The IRS doesn't agree.
by jmnicolas 6y ago
> There's no victim. Literally nobody was harmed here.
The IRS doesn't agree.
- sneak 6y agoWhile the US spends the incredible quantities of tax money it does[1] waging neverending imperialistic war, there is a strong argument to be made that not giving the IRS money is the "least harm" option among the set of ("pay the IRS", "don't pay the IRS"). [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditure_per_capita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_... (Spoiler alert: the US spends more on its military, per capita, than any country in the world except Israel, and more than 2x as much as the next free, industrialized, developed country (Norway), and many multiples more than all other developed free countries.)
- jmnicolas 6y agoThe point I was trying to make is that you may see no harm as an individual, but the state has another viewpoint.
- amanaplanacanal 6y agoMoney taken by the IRS and money spent by Congress have almost no relationship. “Starve the beast” doesn’t work. It has had the effect of adding trillions to the debt we are passing on to our children and grandchildren though. Good job boomers! And I say that as a boomer myself.
- jokethrowaway 6y agoThe more money the IRS get the more money they waste or use to increase inequality. The US is already spending 13bln per day