WSJ article on tax protesters

[Lambkin]

Brief article on the dangers of frivolous detax arguments
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 15924.html

Despite repeated court rulings to the contrary, some people continue to insist there is no law requiring them to pay federal income taxes. Or that wages, tips and other compensation for personal services somehow aren't really taxable. Or that only foreign-source income is taxable.

They simply won't work, and the Internal Revenue Service "will come after you with a passion," says JJ MacNab, who is writing a book about the "sovereign citizen" and tax-protest movement.

[LaVidaRoja]

The second comment deserves a thread all of its (his) own.

And there's reference to that mythical book, again.

[wserra]

Ahh, Tom Herman (the author of the WSJ piece) and this MacNab person are old friends. It's just out of courtesy that he didn't write, "Years ago, she was writing a book".

[jg]

More properly:
"Years ago, she was allegedly writing a book".

[Gregg]

Demo, really, this is starting to resemble the next Guns N Roses Album...

[Cathulhu]

Boys, she's told us before. No problem about the book, it's finding a decent agent and publisher that are the real difficulties for an author.

[Unidyne]

Boys, she's told us before. No problem about the book, it's finding a decent agent and publisher that are the real difficulties for an author.

As well as people who won't be spending all your royalties on "promotional expenses" like many people in the recorded music industry have.

[Gregg]

Has any movie in my lifetime ever made an accounting profit?

Art Buchwald successfully sued the producers of the Eddie Murphy movie "Coming to America" but the court awarded him a percentage of the profits, of which there were none.

[Gregg]

So basically, a few flicks where they couldn't afford good enough accountants to lose money.