Topic: Tax evaders and protesters give Bitcoin a bad name - page 2. (Read 1735 times)

Make others suffer just because you have, why?

Thank goodness I'm not a US citizen or permanent resident then.

You gotta love the way a show like Boston Legal carries that trace of a libertarian streak, periodically sticking it to both Republicans and Democrats, as they both deserve. Pertinent to this thread is the episode in which Denise (Julie Bowen) is being persecuted by the IRS and gets arrested over a $400 arrears. Now, the IRS is nasty, but mostly probably not that nasty. How often would they chase you up, cuff you and cage you over $400? Surely even the IRS would just impose a penalty fee and demand it. Now, if they audit you and expressly accuse you of tax evasion to the tune of $xxxxxx, that's another matter entirely. And while we may think the OP is a troll and morally disagree with what he said, there is no doubt that you could be in serious trouble if the IRS is auditing you for tax evasion...

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Just saw this. Hilarious! I guess he went (or goes) to a private school, has never driven on a road, and doesn't need the police and justice system to protect him from murderers. And he certainly can't imagine why everyone else isn't born rich too!

Wow, too bad you don't know the definition of socialism. People like you are a barrier to adoption by the mainstream. I am now thinking that maybe every teenager should be forced to live on the streets, in poverty, for one year of the life, to understand why we've developed the society we have. We didn't do it 'just because'. It evolved, over time, as a solution to the problems of society. Read some history.

Or he's an IRS employee.

The only political philosophy mentioned by Bitcoin's creator was the libertarian philosophy:


He also saw Bitcoin and government as being mutually opposed:


Anyone with any money in Bitcoin is making a choice between Bitcoin and government. I choose Bitcoin. YMMV.

You know bitcoin is going mainstream when imprudent socialist kids have arrived to discuss how bitcoin shouldn't be used for tax avoidance. Got to love it.

Did I say that? I never said that. And Bitcoin is not anti-government. I'm interested only in technology.

Just because government doesn't always get things right doesn't mean we should abandon all attempts at trying. There's nobody else to do the things that government does. Bitcoin doesn't, in any way shape or form, replace the essential functions of government. If you weren't so privileged, perhaps you'd realize how essential government is to empowering people to lift their lives and communities out of poverty, as opposed to selling their children into child labor and condemning their entire line of descendants into slavery. Public education, for instance, has enabled opportunities for the lower classes to rise - so that, you know, people don't get hopelessly trapped at the low end of society.

But, I suppose you'd have to be there, once in your life, to understand. And, no, you are no so inherently superior to everyone else that you - too - can not be thrown into poverty and your children condemned to a life of a little to no opportunity (what happens when they aren't provided education, and instead put to work at age 10).

If you guys don't pay your taxes, you'll see what I mean eventually.

Trying to equate Bitcoin with any sort of political philosophy, or any technology with any political philosophy, is a huge farce.

I knew him to be a troll. I just have some time to burn on this lovely Saturday.

It could be just that: curiosity. Or just plain old trolling, of course. What would an internet forum be without trolls?

Out of curiosity, why are you on a Bitcoin forum if you have more faith in government than in technology?

Same old nonsensical libertarian catch phrases. True libertarians must get awful annoyed with you people.

[/quote]Oh ok, unfortunaly I have not gotten around to read that book yet, but it's on my todo list
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Highly recommended. I'd also suggest Brave New World by Huxley.

And here I'm reminded that I'm speaking with a bunch of teenagers, gotta remember to keep things in perspective. You people don't even know what the real world is like. Maybe, someday, when you move out of your parent's house, you'll realize the truths about society.

Government has done a terrible job of protecting people from the debt of central banks. In this case, government has been used by a minority, central bankers, to attack the majority.

Perhaps when you grow up you'll realize that human ingenuity is more powerful than the force and fraud of government. Example: Bitcoin.

You'll never own anything until (for long) until you comply with tax laws. Glad to know you're too good for taxes though. Everyone else is just a bunch of 'sheep' or 'slaves', clearly not as special as you.

Oh ok, unfortunaly I have not gotten around to read that book yet, but it's on my todo list

It's a reference from 1984 by George Orwell. Sorry for confusion.

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