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Originally Posted by gimpy117

Paying your fair share of taxes is your civil duty. Even if it's not technically illegal to tax shelter it's immoral and hurting america. The USA loses a lot of tax revenue a year because some selfish citizens and companies try to get around taxes any way they can. People would say it was wrong if you got up from church and left every time the offering plate was passed around...so why do this when america passes it's plate to you?

No, it's not anyones "civil duty" to pay taxes. When people in government create taxes that are wrong, it is our civic duty to oppose them. People have rights. Government does not.

The true purpose of taxation is that government has no means to create revenue, so if we want something from government we have to empower the government to take what is necessary for it to run.

Now we have people in the government who think it is their job to support everything they can imagine, and when anyone points out that they wrong to do so, they cry "immoral" and "not paying their fair share". All taxes are evil, but they are a necessary evil. When people like you start claiming that taxes are good, and avoiding them is bad, then America has already gone far too far in the wrong direction.

The personal income tax was created in the first place because self-righteous control freaks in the government wanted to stop the rich from "getting away with it". We create government to protect our rights, and we make laws to protect ourselves from each other. Just because you believe that someone having more money than someone else is evil, doesn't make it so. The purpose of taxation is to keep the government running, not because you or anyone else thinks it's "right", or "moral".