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Written by Helen
Posted in Court Appearances, Prison, Wesley Snipes
6 Responses to “Wesley Snipes gets maximum penalty, three years in prison, for tax evasion”
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I’ve heard of people who voluntarily make & live on too little money to even be taxed. I don’t know if I could handle that, but it seems like a much better & more effective way of protesting tax laws than just not paying them
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The laws are made for everybody, not just people who think they’re fair or unfair. Perhaps, just perhaps, Snipes was given a just sentence, regardless of his celebrity, considering he knowingly subverted the law
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We don’t have to agree with the laws, we just have to follow them. I’m not sorry for him.
If you don’t like the laws, you need to work on getting the law changed. You can’t do high-profile disobedience and not expect punishment.
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wesley should spend 3 years in jail for being such a godawful actor.
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Well this only pisses me off because if this was Paris Hilton they would’ve given her 20 years in a federal prison but because she was crying, the judge would’ve reduced it to only 20 minutes in a room with no wallpaper.
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I’ve always agreed with TRUE tax evaders, because if you research the history of the income tax, it was never meant to be permanent. People just got used to it, and the government wasn’t about to give up a huge revenue stream.
For almost 200 years the only taxes the Federal gov. was actually supposed to take was on interstate commerce and international trade. Some commodities like alcohol and tobacco carried taxes, but that was pretty much the extent of it.
That being said, like most people I’m afraid enough of the IRS to pay my taxes on time and in full - which is what he should have done. It does piss me off that I was reading an article about this earlier and the judge flat out said he was trying to make an example out of Snipes. When I hear things like that it really bothers me, because under the law we’re ALL supposed to be equal. We bitch when celebrities get lighter sentences for being famous, so it’s a double standard not to be just as outraged when they’re treated worse for the same reasons.
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