Income Tax
Squawk7700
Good point on US taxes.....in fact US income tax was first levied by A.Lincoln to fund the civil war programmes (and subsequently repealed). There is a strong case for questioning the constitutionallity of Income Tax but like you said its easier to pay the big bully than try and fight alone and what admistration is gonna execute its golden egg laying goose at the alter of "legality". So many codes and loopholes (sorry credits/subsidies/rejuvination packages) that leaves the high end middle classes funding the biggest chunk of salary taxes. For our profession the codes are hopelessly out dated I think. Consider most of our income is earned off shore as we are out of the country (be it US or Canada) 85 to 90% of the time.
But "Natural Person"!....Afraid that old idea went south with the Calvalry and steam driven automobiles. Nah look for income tax rates around 28 to 35% in 15 to 20 years to fund the huge debt..better go get those Roth IRA's or off shore pensions set up...
In a strange way I kinda admire the lady who is off to prison. She did indeed stand up to the bully, albeit for personal gain. But likely she would only spend the money anyway on "things" which as you said are taxed......urghhh guess I'm rambling on...to hell with it I'll as long as Honkers doesn't get any of my money guess Uncle Sam will have to be paid!!!