"Vic Smith" wrote in message

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Only criminals (fraud) and wackos who won't cooperate in any fashion
end up in jail because of IRS violations.
IRS is always making settlements for unpaid taxes, arranging payment
plans, and doesn't want people in jail where they can't pay.
They are pussycats.
Traffic courts are lions in comparison.

So true. To get the IRS to use actual coercive physical force on you, you
basically have to beg them for it. Repeatedly. And with the kind of bad
attitude you might expect from badass (or is it "bad add") Wesley Snipes.

If you place the IRS rules on a street thug, he would first have to demand
money in a note about 20 times, then show up and ask you in person for the
money, then show you a gun and say "I could take it from you" and finally,
if you didn't meet his demands he would shove the gun in your face - but
probably STILL ask you to hand it over without any trouble.

To most people the only "force" they see are dunning letters sent by
computers. That's enough to get most of them to pay. Not because of force,
but because there are serious consequences for failing to comply. Besides,
most taxes are collected not by force, but by payroll deductions. What
would Robin Hood say?

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Bobby G.