phonon
Posts: 396
Joined: Nov. 2006
|
Hmm. I also haven't followed the Hovind case. Was it personal income taxes or corporate taxes or what? If it was corporate or property, then I guess the whole protest thing doesn't apply.
And maybe Hovind gulled people out of their money, which is no different than any church or casino. But those people gave their money freely, just like anyone going to the movies or to see a stand-up comic or a $5000-a-plate fundraiser for some presidential candidate. But the IRS comes with force. If you don't put money in a preacher's basket, he doesn't arrest you and put you in jail for ten years.
Kent Hovind may be dumb, he may be a liar, he may be whatever, but in my personal opinion, he doesn't deserve to go to jail for 10 years for not paying taxes.
(Now, all that stuff about assault, battery, and burglary, if true, should warrant punishment of some sort.)
| Quote | | The Hovinds referred to the United States Government as "the 'bankrupt' corporate government" |
$9 trillion in debt? I agree with them.
I want to be clear though. The only kind of tax I'm personally against is the federal personal income tax. If Hovind wasn't paying property taxes or some other kind, then, well, that sucks of him.
--------------
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
|
