Wesley Snipes Tax Evasion Sentence Outrages Libertarian Party

• snipes legal counsel were correct but they fought the the illegal IRS system. watch the obama deception on youtube and endgame by alex jones. they profit on us while we sleep!!

• google (gain control over the strawman) to learn about how we are being cheated out of our income!

• again we see the double standard, blacks even of this celebrity status are usually looked upon unfavorably in the legal system. Penalize the man by collecting the tax money owed. Charge him interest, give him community service....spread his name all over the internet and news papers.... but sending him to prison....?!? When congressman Charles B.Rangle get imprisoned for tax evasion... thats when Wesley Snipes should get imprisoned too... By the way, What day is our illustrious congressman ordered to show up to begin his sentence?!???

• The libertarian philosophy is more internally consistent than either republican or democrat ones. While republicans put up that Charlton Heston ad proclaiming republicans as the party of freedom, try going to a republican or tea party meeting some time & tell them drugs should be decriminalized. Libertarian philosophy, in truth is neither liberal nor right wing, but folks have come to adopt this philosophy from both ends of the political spectrum. Primarily right wingers go that direction, but prominent political philosopher Robert Nozick came from the Weather Underground in his student days. Libertarians favor radically cutting the size of the state & eliminating taxes. They favor individual rights and responsibilities rather than government rights. It would be more appropriate to say libertarians are composed of anarchists and small-government types than characterize it as a right-left thing. When Reagan said "government isn't the answer to our problems. government IS the problem." that was a quintessentially libertarian viewpoint. I'm not sure he actually governed that way, however. In sum, very few understand what a libertarian actually is. That's why you hear "tea party" mentioned in the context of libertarian. Let me assure you, they are nowhere close. Anybody who's curious should start by reading JS Mill's "On Liberty" and following up with Nozick's "Anarchy State & Utopia".

• First of all, Libertarians do <B><U><I>not</I></U></B> come in liberal and right-wing flavors, because the left-center-right philosophy is as outdated as the people who use those phrases. Political thought is, at the very least, two-dimensional, with Libertarians occupying the <B><U><I>top</I></U></B> of the political spectrum [see the "Worlds Smallest Political Quiz" on the Advocates for Self-Government website.]<BR> <BR> Second, at some point the people just plain <B><U><I>have enough</I></U></B>. If someone tries to mug you at the point of a gun and you dutifully hand over your wallet with $20 in it to avoid getting killed, is it a crime to not tell the mugger about the $500 in your money belt? How is that any different that what the gov't does? Because some elected officials think the money is theirs?<BR> <BR> Third, and finally, the federal income tax <B><U><I>exists only to pay the interest on the national debt</I></U></B>. Get rid of the Fed, have our gov't start "coining the money and regulating the value thereof" again, and stop squandering our money to the unelected and unaccountable thieves at the Fed.

• You neglected to cite the part of Benedict's statement that pointed out that politically connected high profile tax cheats like Tim Geitner were not ordered to jail for their offenses. The IRS selective enforcement singles out only those who lack political power.

• Libertarians view taxes as anti-rights and immoral. Many feel that non-payment should at least be de-criminalized, as for example has been done in Switzerland. In addition, a properly constituted public entity should be sending people paychecks like the Libertarian-designed Alaska Permanent Fund (see http://www.Libertarian-International.org ... and page down to Friedman article), not demanding them. A more balanced news item could address the Libertarian position. This item seems to be unaware of growing complaints Mr. Benedict references that people are being prosecuted despite reliance on experts in tax law, or even IRS tax help.

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