"The purpose of this initiative is to reaffirm and reinvigorate the Tax Division’s commitment to investigate, pursue and, where appropriate, prosecute those who take concrete action to defy and deny the fundamental validity of the tax laws.
Millions of hard-working Americans take time out of their hectic schedules to perform a time-consuming and often arduous task of filing federal income tax returns. 130 million Americans voluntarily [WHAT? VOLUNTARILY? You mean we WON'T go to jail if we don't do this every year?] engage in this ritual every year. These individuals participate because they know that with the privileges that the United States has given them come the responsibilities and obligations of citizenship. [Laughing out loud.]
This initiative is aimed at stopping those tax defiers who do not meet their federal tax obligations and seek to transfer those obligations to their neighbor’s back. [And, it goes on, blah, blah, blah.]"
The Justice Department used to refer to the tax protesters it prosecuted either as “tax protesters” or as “tax resisters”. Last month, they started to use “tax defiers” instead.
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Well I guess everyone who comes to this blog likes to pay taxes. Good American Citizens all.
Linnette, why do you have "(sic)" after U.S. Department of Justice? Because they didn't use DOJ? Educate me.
(sic) is usually used after a word, phrase, or quote to let the reader know that it has been written intentionally, even though it may seem wrong. So, in the case of the Department of Justice, I wanted to let the reader know that I did not make a mistake when I wrote it, even though the Department of Justice rarely does what the name implies.
oic (sic)
funny
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