US tax-evasion punishment (was: The 0-tone ET scale...)

> From: Dave Keenan <D.KEENAN@...>
> To: <metatuning@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 3:12 PM
> Subject: [metatuning] Re: The 0-tone ET scale is no more in Afghanistan.
>
>
> --- In metatuning@y..., "John A. deLaubenfels" <jdl@a...> wrote:
> > I don't know about Australia or the UK, but here in the US if
> > you don't pay your taxes, they send guys with guns to arrest you.
> > I try to do what I can, yet remain out of jail if possible. ;->
>
> I'm pretty sure you're mistaken about this. But yeah, it aint easy. I
> believe that in the US, as in the UK and Australia, if you've got
> assets or income, they simply sieze them or intercept them if they
> possibly can. They aren't terribly interested in jailing you. If you
> don't have anything that can be turned into money, then I don't
> believe that is a crime yet, even in the US.

No, Dave, John is right. If the US Internal Revenue Service
insists that you owe them money, and you insist that you don't,
men with guns *will* show up at your door to take you to jail.

IMO, one of the most shameful internal policies in America
in the past has been this way-out-of-proportion-to-the-crime
punishment of tax evaders.

The tax laws have been becoming a bit more lenient over the
last three years or so. But John's still correct.

love / peace / harmony ...

-monz
http://www.monz.org
"All roads lead to n^0"

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