Comments on: Wesley Snipes Gets 3 Years For Not Filing Taxes, But Don’t Tell Harry Reid

By: Matthew Lee

Matthew Lee — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:31:10 +0000

Libertarian: Are taxes voluntary?
HR: Yes
Libertarian: Are taxes compulsary
HR: Yes
Libertarian: Aren’t voluntary and compulsary ayntonyms?
HR: In what context?
Libertarian: In the context that they are ayntonyms.
HR: I was talking about a different voluntary.
Libertarian: I was talking about the ayntonym of compulsary.

By: Thomas Blair

Thomas Blair — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:44:47 +0000

All voluntary compliance means is that the IRS allows you to calculate your tax bill. Taxes are not voluntary themselves.

By: Thomas Blair

Thomas Blair — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:44:02 +0000

oilnwater,

LIMO meaning Libertarian in Mind Only would fit well with the way you’re using it.

By: oilnwater

oilnwater — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:28:41 +0000

i’ve said it b4 and will say it again: i am not a libertarian. but also to clarify: i try to make most of my income in cash, which happens better in some years than others.

By: Stephen Littau

Stephen Littau — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:18:18 +0000

Harry Reid: “Taxes are voluntary.”

That’s the best doublespeak I’ve ever heard!

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:29:40 +0000

oilnwater–since you’re obviously not a LIMO, you don’t ever pay any taxes right?

By: UCrawford

UCrawford — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:29:12 +0000

Lib in name only. “N” oops

It happens.:) Acronyms are pretty easy to repeatedly botch without noticing.

By: oilnwater

oilnwater — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:13:16 +0000

Lib in name only. “N” soops

By: Doug Mataconis

Doug Mataconis — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:07:47 +0000

LIMO = Libertarian In Massachusetts Only ?
Libertarian Interested In Martian Obelisks ?
Libertarian In Marvelous Obliviousness ?

By: UCrawford

UCrawford — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:02:23 +0000

Okay, at the risk of sounding clueless…what in the hell is a LIMO? Do you guys actually mean LINO (Libertarian In Name Only)?

oilnwater,

disobedience is provided for in the Dec of Independence. and that should be plenty to show real libertarians what to do if they actually wanted to act on their conviction.

That’s only partially true…and Doug is correct as well. Yes, civil disobedience is a central tenet of the Declaration of Independence. But disobedience is not without its consequences, which you don’t seem willing to acknowledge. As Doug pointed out, each individual has the right to decide whether an act of disobedience is worth it to them based on their own particular self-interest, and aren’t required to engage in that act just because some group of libertarians claim it is “the right thing to do”. Being a supporter of individual freedom does not give you the right to compel someone else to oppose a law that you think is unjust…otherwise you are violating the very thing you claim to be upholding.

By: Doug Mataconis

Doug Mataconis — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:57:35 +0000

Which is why I expend most of my energy worrying about my own well-being and that of my family.

By: oilnwater

oilnwater — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:54:59 +0000

no more pointless than your own participation in politics or political opinion.

By: Doug Mataconis

Doug Mataconis — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:51:39 +0000

regardless of the tax amendment to the Constitution, the Fed gov is taking actions across the board that directly violate the most central of lib philosophy. disobedience is provided for in the Dec of Independence. and that should be plenty to show real libertarians what to do if they actually wanted to act on their conviction.

Since when is violating the law, going to jail, and impoverishing your family a requirement for being a libertarian ?

that is political action. what LIMOs (which are virtually %100 of you) rationalize is simply being part of the system or trying to participate in it at an entry point which guarantees that the Fed gov will be continuing to take action violating the lib philosophy into the forseeable future.

If political action doesn’t matter, then I guess the whole Ron Paul campaign was pointless, huh ?

Sorry, that was a shot I had to take ;)

By: oilnwater

oilnwater — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:45:56 +0000

that is political action. what LIMOs (which are virtually %100 of you) rationalize is simply being part of the system or trying to participate in it at an entry point which guarantees that the Fed gov will be continuing to take action violating the lib philosophy into the forseeable future.

By: oilnwater

oilnwater — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:43:48 +0000

regardless of the tax amendment to the Constitution, the Fed gov is taking actions across the board that directly violate the most central of lib philosophy. disobedience is provided for in the Dec of Independence. and that should be plenty to show real libertarians what to do if they actually wanted to act on their conviction.