realist wrote:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mommaEradioRebels/2009/03/11/Momma-E-and-the-Radio-Rebels
Ray had a rant about income tax being illegal.
Heh. My ex-husband in Georgia got it into his head that the Internal Revenue Service wasn't part of the federal government and that they had no right to take his "hard-earned money" so he stopped paying his taxes - this was about 10 years after we split up, which was about 5 minutes after our shotgun marriage when we were still teenagers, so he would've been in his late 20s when it happened.
He slipped through the cracks for a couple of years and then the IRS noticed and audited him for about the previous 10 years. Turned out that, aside from stopping paying taxes altogether for a couple of years, he'd been claiming our daughter as a dependent even though I had sole custody, as well as a whole host of other dodgy things. Ex- ignored them, didn't take any legal advice, and insisted throughout that the IRS was "illegal," up to and including when they took his house.
Ah, schadenfreude can be a sweet, sweet thing sometimes.