Spring Cleaning With Hallucinations
There are over twenty files this year that I have put some work into with higher numbers and I am kicking myself for not having reviewed opinions and the like for a while. So here is some of the stuff that I will probably never give the full treatment to. My version of spring cleaning.
Inside Dean Steeves’ Long IRS Battle: $16M Assessments, a ‘Mandatory Tax-Excepted’ Ministry, and Why the Merits Never Get Reached
Steeves has been overall unsuccessful in the cases he has been bringing. He seems to lose them on procedural or technical issues. The merits of the arguments that he raises against the tax are never addressed.
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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.