"Snipes' attorneys had filed character-building testimonials from Denzel Washington, Woody Harrelson and television's Judge Joe Brown Wednesday, along with a sentencing memorandum recommending probation, not imprisonment." [more]
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
"It hurts being this good." - Sidney Dean
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Bollocks. Willie Mays Hays is a tax cheat. I liked the last line of the decision, which basically said they were throwing the book at Snipes because he is famous.
I started to drive down and try to see the sentencing today, but I figured it would be too crowded.
This line wasn't in the CNN story (which I read):
Snipes withheld tax returns based on his belief that the Internal Revenue Service is not a properly established government agency. According to the memo filed today, Snipes also contended that he did not file business returns because he "was personally not subject to taxation because he was a 'stateless person' or 'nonresident alien,'" or a "'nontaxpayer,'" which prosecutors flatly rejected.
So killing vampires doesn't make you a "stateless person?" I thought being a half-breed daywalker meant you existed between states and, thus, stateless.
No one likes paying taxes, but there are loopholes that people of means can use to drastically reduce what they pay. I don't condone using tax shelters and whatnot, but that's far less embarrassing than the "IRS isn't legal/constitutional/Federal Law doesn't actually require you to pay taxes" angle, which is just flat-out stupid; it's up there with "The Civil War wasn't about slavery" and any world view involving flat-earth, young-earth, and/or anti-evolutionary theory in terms of shit that shows that you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. And if you're in the US making money at any time, the Feds are going to get their cut, so the "stateless person" argument isn't very well thought out, either.
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