Will the real Kent Hovind please stand up? Dr. Dino gets outed by an ex-employee.
Independent Baptist Minister and young earth creationist, Kent Hovind, "Doctor Dino", nearing the end of a long prison sentence on tax related trial finds himself...
Nay Nay We Won’t Pay – Evaders, Protesters and Resisters Versus IRS
Dr. Olejak is probably the exception that proves the rule when it comes to few prosecutions of war tax resisters compared to tax protesters. The protesters, because they believe the IRS is acting illegally, end up performing other illegal or questionable acts – such as the structuring that made up most of the counts Kent Hovind was convicted of or the type of property filings (sometimes called “paper terrorism”), that are the basis of Hovind’s current prosecution.
In Dr. Olejak’s case we see that type of behavior in a war tax protester and similar attention from IRS Criminal Investigation. When it comes to the lighter sentence, he ended up getting credit for “acceptance of responsibility” and entered into a plea agreement. Hovind, on the other hand, went to trial and even after conviction and unsuccessful appeal continues to insist that he broke no laws.
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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.