is right around the corner. This is going to save me a lot of time and effort.
*snark*

I feel for the interviewer - I think he wanted to throttle ol’ Harry a bit, there.

That was priceless. I guess the difference in a voluntary tax system is that we can or cannot voluntarily fill out the form. This man has a mental illness.

If you consider that people like Harry Reid believes that all money earned is really the government’s rather than the wage earner’s it might make more sense that he thinks taxation is voluntary.

After all, they are volunteering to keep only an arm and a leg rather than both arms and legs and whatever other body parts they’d be inclined to keep rather than give.

/snark

A Monty Python skit I vaguely remember.

Or to be dumb as a post. Wow. And this man is the Senate Majority Leader. Put him together with Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama and we could be in real trouble.

One more believer that the most powerful position is that of the “Name Giver” He gets by with it - keeps getting re-elected. Funny isn’t it, we used to think the crooks were the guys running the casinos in his state.

Reminds me a bit of a line from a Tom Lehrer song which went, “..Plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize. Let no one else’s work evade your eyes. Remember why the good Lord made your eyes. Don’t shade your eyes, plagiarize, plagiarize plagiarize, But remember, of course, to call it ‘research’”

You see Harry Reid was exactly right. Income taxes are voluntary in the sense that the government voluntarily chooses to allow you to KEEP some of your money. You see all the money, all the property, all the jobs, belong to them. Think that statement is a little bold, dont pay your car or home property taxes and see how long you have your car or your home. Like your job in the childrens moto cross industry, not any more since we have to protect the kids from lead paint.

We live in their world, their rules, their money.

Get used to it…..

….or get out before then wont let you out.

The questioner says if you don’t pay your taxes, you go to jail.

Harry says that’s necessarily true, as there are civil penalties that may apply instead.

Well neither of those is necessarily true, as a third alternative is that you end up as an Obama cabinet member.

+Tobacco -Alcohol - Luxury Tax - Don’t want to pay the tax, don’t buy it.
- Unemployed merchants=less tax revenue
+ Fuel Tax - Bus, Mass transit
- The great black hole of city finances (UTWU)
+Tolls - use alternate routes
- Roads will not receive adequate repair and maintenance $$$

But don’t tell me that that payroll confiscation of taxes is VOLUTARY.
No W4/1099/1040 , off the to IRS(or lower level authority) judge and jail with you.
Wnat to drive ANYWHERE, you have to pay fuel tax
Want to buty ANYTHING non-food in many states, SALES TAX
Harry may have aged from the original of this video, but with age has come greater insanity, which is why the Wicked Witch(es) of the West lead him around by the Ba^7^7$
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This actually explains a lot. Under Reid’s definition of “voluntary”, people can be required under penalty of law to do “volunteer” service work. It’s NOT slavery, it’s “community service”, and the people in charge aren’t slave masters, they’re “community organizers”. Yeah, THAT’s the ticket!

Did I fall asleep some time in January and wake up in an Orwell novel?

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More evidence for the true believers that the tax system is voluntary. Reid’s bumbling about, if widely disseminated, will confirm the mistaken views of lots of tax protestors. Sure, he said you can’t get away with it, but listen to him. His bumbling is so bad, he must be “in the know” and covering up, because he has to. People will go to jail, in part, because of Reid’s failure to a) recognize the distinction between forced taxation and voluntary compliance; and b) acknowledge that the government TAKES taxes whether its citizens think it is a good idea or not.

The phrase “our system is based upon voluntary compliance” has led more people to jail and ruin than any other ever propogated by government. Whoever came up with that ludicrous phrase really ought to be shot, drawn and quartered, tarred and feathered, and forced to listen to an endless loop of Barry Manilow muzak while to chained to a prison cell somewhere in Central America. Of course, what was meant, was that the U.S. relies on its citizens voluntarily COMPLYING with the law, in that it would be difficult to force everyone to comply. This is why we have income withholding. If the taxpayers themselves had to write out the checks to the government every payday, we would have revolt. But you can’t miss what you don’t see.

Unfortunately, some see that “voluntary” language and think, “Well, I’ll just unvolunteer.” And then they incur huge penalties, ruining them financially, tearing apart their families, and possibly even jail - thereby losing their livelihoods and any possibility of paying their debt. And then we have Dingy Harry coming out with a thoroughly pathetic defense of the notion of “voluntariness”. This governmental/political need to try to paint the tax system as less than what it is has caused, and will continue to cause, thousands of people to be ruined personally and financially. But will it ever touch Harry Reid? Will it ever touch the pols who take more and more of the citizens hard earned money? Will the person who wrote that nonsense into IRS forms ever feel anything toward those he or she misled? Will any of them care, or at least notice enough to change it? Of course not.