I miss the part where it’s a conservative value to be a tax cheat?
Tax CHEAT? Hey! It's the American way to shop cheap, and if the state lawmakers impose an outrageous tax on a legal product, of course we are all going to shop around for "cheaper." What's wrong with that?
Tax avoidance and tax evasion are two different things.
But you knew that, Weeny, or did you miss that day at How To Impersonate A Conservative classes?
“I miss the part where it’s a conservative value to be a tax cheat?”
What would you call the people who threw all that tea in the harbor, back in the day?
I’m conservative. I understand what taxes are for, and I have nothing against the idea, however, I am highly insulted and angry at the level of over-taxation without representation occuring by our current government and elected and non-elected officials. I am outraged that they take almost 50% of my income, and I feel that I have no voice, and no representation for it, and ANY attempt to add a further tax burden, be ot for tobacco, luxury goods, “sin” taxes, property taxes, what have to, is an insult and an outrage. We won’t even discuss for the moment how much of that money is wasted.
I don’t support tax cheats, but I support fighting the incessant and insane taxation we are imposed with. Our Founding Fathers did not fight and die to win this country for us, for us to lie down and meekly accept what the Feds decide. The methods people were using to buy the cigarettes from the Indian reservations was legal, until now, as I understand it. Do not label these people “tax cheats”.
I don’t live in New York, because my family does, and I know what the tax burden there is, and it’s outrageous. To accuse people of being tax cheats because they’re trying to legally avoid the ponderous NY State taxes is....yoiu should be ashamed to call yourself a conservative.
Not only is it a value, it is a moral obligation to resist and avoid taxation.