Don W wrote:
Stephen Trapani wrote:
Larry wrote:

He had much more than that wrong. The primary thing he had wrong was
how close of tabs government would keep on citizens. People cry all
the time about this law and that law, but fail to take into account
how strictly the laws are actually enforced. You mention taxes.

I have gone about seven years now without paying my income taxes. Yes,
I do owe them, yes it is a significant amount, no I'm not using some
verbal trick. I owe taxes, I haven't paid them. It's against the law.
But, if not for me actually informing an IRS agent that I haven't paid
them, I probably still would be going relatively un-noticed. Time
after time I would receive notices and even phone calls but then they
would just let it slide. When this guy did find out did they rush me
to jail? No. Threaten me with jail? No. Threaten me at all? Yeah, well
a little. "We're going to have to do something if this isn't paid
soon." He said. And then I was ignored for another year or two.
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Stephen

Whoa Stephen,

The wheels of government grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.
The amount you owe them must be way down on the list, because otherwise
you'd already probably be out on parole after a couple of warning years
in the federal pen.

Do you move around a lot by any chance? I would not count on getting
away with this long term.

I've lived and worked in the same place for twenty years. Is $65,000 not
much money?

But that was only one example of my point. I speed often, for example. I
break a few other laws fairly often with little to no fear of getting
caught because it's obvious it's a low priority for the govt. Don't you
ever break laws for good reason and not fear much getting caught?

Our freedom has less to do with what's written down on paper. It has
much more to do with what actually happens to us when we try to do good
things that we want to do.

Stephen