Comments on: Top Tax Scams, Part 2 http://www.fivecentnickel.com/2006/02/09/top-tax-scams-part-2/ personal finance tips, tricks, and commentary Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:22:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: jim http://www.fivecentnickel.com/2006/02/09/top-tax-scams-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1807 jim Fri, 10 Feb 2006 04:52:55 +0000 http://www.fivecentnickel.com/2006/02/09/top-tax-scams-part-2/#comment-1807 Some of these are downright ridiculous, how do people think they can get away with some of this stuff? Some of these are downright ridiculous, how do people think they can get away with some of this stuff?

]]> By: Nick http://www.fivecentnickel.com/2006/02/09/top-tax-scams-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1795 Nick Thu, 09 Feb 2006 14:27:36 +0000 http://www.fivecentnickel.com/2006/02/09/top-tax-scams-part-2/#comment-1795 My favorite arguments that taxes are "unconstitutional"... Taxes are against my religion, so they violate my First Amendment rights. I need money to buy more guns, so taxes "infringe on my right to bear arms." States already have the power to tax me, so the federal government should not also have that power according to the Tenth Amendment. (Most of these people never read down to the Sixteenth Amendment.) By paying taxes, I become the slave of the government, so that violates the Thirteenth Amendment prohibiting slavery. My favorite arguments that taxes are “unconstitutional”…

Taxes are against my religion, so they violate my First Amendment rights.

I need money to buy more guns, so taxes “infringe on my right to bear arms.”

States already have the power to tax me, so the federal government should not also have that power according to the Tenth Amendment. (Most of these people never read down to the Sixteenth Amendment.)

By paying taxes, I become the slave of the government, so that violates the Thirteenth Amendment prohibiting slavery.

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