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April 2008
Books The New Criterion  The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art  Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse  Art’s Prospect: The Challenge of Tradition in an Age of Celebrity  Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age  Tenured Radicals, Revised: How Politics has Corrupted our Higher Education  Counterpoints: 25 Years of The New Criterion on Culture and the Arts  The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America  Against the Idols of the Age  Lengthened Shadows: America and Its Institutions in the Twenty-First Century  The Survival of Culture: Permanent Values in a Virtual Age  Physics and Politics, by Walter Bagehot, edited with an Introduction by Roger Kimball |
April 25, 2008 4:11 AM
Why did Wesley Snipes get the max?Instapundit links to a thoughtful, and disturbing, piece on the government’s real priorities in handing down the maximum sentence to Wesley Snipes. The key sentence: “there is no greater threat to freedom in a capitalist society than that of the government to tax and regulate activity.” Comments (5)Philip Terzian :Daniel Crandall :That 3 years in prison ... A shot across the bow of anyone contemplating a tax revolt? william :I have to be very honest. I have mixed feelings about this. I don't like my mixed feelings either. I’m not going to sleep tonight. My thoughts….. Zhombre :William, Snipes is an arrogant and ignorant jerk. He's a scofflaw who hooked up with two losers in south Florida peddling financial snake oil, one of whom doesn't believe the tax laws apply to him but took refuge in the bankruptcy laws for protection from creditors. The only freedom Snipes is allied with is his own. Does that help? heather :It is important for us to understand the actual real difference between the State and the Citizen: the State, in order to survive, must be able to collect taxes from the Citizen, and not vice versa. That is the State's number one priority, and it maintains the Law and Force in order to do so. It is interesting that the most efficient branch of any government is the tax collecting department. It is also interesting that as First World governments have flourished into the 21st century, their "tax codes" have become so complex that even chambermaids have to hire a tax specialist to produce an annual return acceptable to the State. Comments have been archived for this page. |
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The power to tax and the adjudication of tax cases are, in the words of Charles I, 'clean, separate things.' As a law-abiding taxpayer I am resentful of people like Snipes who enjoy substantial incomes, don't pay their taxes, and then gloat about their ability to avoid any reckoning. Snipes made two cardinal mistakes: He chose to disobey the law, and he expressed contempt for people who abide by the law and pay their taxes. If punishment is a form of redress for misbehavior then 'the max' is exactly what Snipes deserved, and I am delighted he got it.
Apr 25, 2008 08:14 AM