Somebody tell poor Harry!

In the wake of nutcase Joseph Stack's suicide mission against the IRS, Stephen Ohlemacher of the Associated Press wrote an article about tax myths. One of the myths he dispelled was the myth that paying taxes is voluntary. "You would think a little light bulb would go on in their head and they would say, 'Why in the heck is everybody else paying taxes?'" said Peter R. Zeidenberg, a former federal prosecutor. The official IRS statement is "The term voluntary compliance means that each of us is responsible for filing a tax return when required and for determining and paying the correct amount of tax."

Somebody please inform poor old Harry Reid who insists that paying taxes is voluntary and that we're not like the European countries who hold the taxes out of people's paychecks!


"Suicide pilot follows long line of tax protesters." The Dallas Morning News; February 21, 2010; p. 3A.

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