Wesley Snipes will now be Bubba's "girlfriend" for 3 years.

Wesley Snipes Sentenced to Three Years in Jail

Pay your taxes or else get sodomized by Bubba, your new roommate. I've heard Bubba is very "aggressive" so watch out.

 

Wow........he got more hard time than Martha Stewart got for stock fraud!!!

Looks like he'll get a bigger @$$hole now......courtesy of "Bubba"----LOL

 

He's being made an example of.

You have to wonder what kind of country we live in, where citizens actually fear an IRS audit more than a terrorist attack.

Is that our government working for us?

This movie provides some insight into taxes.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1656880303867390173


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Needless to say, Wes could have paid his taxes. He chose not to and made a martyr of himself. Hopefully he gets a cell with Irwin Schiff.

 

Either you pay Uncle Sam to screw you financially, or he will arrange to have you screwed physically.

 

You know Martha Stewart didn't do anything wrong. She got a tip from her stock broker that Sam Waksal (then ceo of Imclone) and family were dumping lots of stock on the market, so she dumped her stock as well in imclone. She got in trouble for lying to the FBI about a non-crime. What Sam Waksal did was insider selling. Which is why he is doing 9 years in prison.

 

You have a google video link for everything don't you?

 

You gotta a love a government of the people, by the people, for the people, that abuses the people.
AHHHH FRAK IT.

 

Not everything. But a lot of things...

 

Yeah, the same way all criminals are. I have no sympathy for tax cheats.

Here is a guy probably worth over $100 million. He decided that he did not owe taxes for whatever reason. He was found guilty and now gets to spend 3 years in a Federal prison - where he will do all of his time. I hope he still feels like it was a wise decision to not file tax returns. Hopefully it has a deterrent effect and keeps other people from thinking they can get away with cheating on their taxes.

 

he was charged with 18 counts

guilty for 3 misdemeanors


it is unheard of getting 3 years of jail time for 3 misdemeanors

 

The old saying goes you are guilty until proven innocent with the Irs. I guess he could not come up with a good excuse and must have been doing it for a long time.

 

Really? In Federal Court?

This is not your average dog poop on the lawn misdemeanor.

 

I've stepped in cow pies with more character and morality than present company.

Taxes are theft. And one day, we won't have taxes anymore. Because like drug use, not paying your taxes is a victimless crime. The only (sic) victim is that someone challenges the state's assertion that it owns 100% of your income and allows you to keep some of it.

In my mind, Snipes is a hero for standing up to the IRS. He had the means to pay, and if you were familiar with the case, you would know that he took them on to make a point, not because he's a cheater.

 

Is that some kind of insult?

Right and your source would be?

I guess you think the national defense comes free.

What a idiot... here's your HERO. Boy he really held that line saying how miseducated he was and paying up 5 million.

"I am an idealistic, naive, passionate, truth-seeking, spiritually motivated artist, unschooled in the science of law and finance," Snipes said. He said his wealth and celebrity attracted "wolves and jackals like flies are attracted to meat." He called himself "well-intentioned, but miseducated."

Snipes surprised the court before Hodges handed down the sentence by offering the government three checks totaling $5 million in unpaid taxes over several years, money the government first denied but then accepted. Prosecutors called it "grandstanding" to avoid jail time, and a mere down payment on the actor's still-undetermined multimillion dollar tax bill.​

 

Very true. Not a lot of people understand this.

 

A ridiculous sentence - seeing how much his wealth meant to him they should have fined him to the hilt and let that serve as a punishment.

 

Of course not. That would get me an infraction.

Do you have a choice to pay it? Are they voluntary?

Of course not. If I forced you to pay money under threat of kidnapping or violence, that would be illegal, when the government does it, we call it just?

You can't even use the justification that society deems it, because I am pretty sure if you put closing the IRS down on a ballot, it would pass with a super majority of popular votes.

The reason why we have taxes are to secure the national debt. It's the collateral that allows the FED to be the lender of last resort. Or in other words, it enables government to DEFICIT SPEND. Not just spend the taxes, but go deeper into debt, with the promise to repay because the government can always collect taxes through the use of (sic) law and coercive force.

Not at all. But that's not paid for by income tax. I have a problem with income tax, not corporate taxes. People have to work to eat. To have shelter. It's immoral to tax that.

Because the state punishes citizens who don't "go along". It's not a lot different than Mohammad Ali. Seems it's always the high profile black man who is standing up for principal, and risking his career and future to make a point.

 

Wesley is huge. He'll probably be the bubba for three years.

 

Then everyone would stop using corporations. All businesses would become sole proprietorships or partnerships and your tax revenue would drop to zero in less than a year.

I thought you were smarter than this. Don't you know that you can't tax corporations, as all they do is pass the costs on to the consumers? It doesn't reduce taxes on individuals, it only hides them.

Of course, it also makes American business uncompetitive globally, but that may be a goal for you.

 

The idea of not having any state taxes and having global corporations fund all essential services is like the worst dystopian nightmare come true.