re: #17 KingKenrod

The government also created a process where disagreements can be fairly disputed and resolved.

True, and I point that out.

However… that doesn’t mean it is NOT hypocritical to say that you “wish you could”, or “think you should” be paying more taxes when you are fighting the assessment.

King says: “take actions based on the government you have instead of the government you want.”

I point out that “The government he has tells him to pay more taxes.” He is not taking actions based on the government he has, and he is being hypocritical when he describes the government he wants.

He says he wants a government that takes more taxes… and he has a government that takes more taxes…. Yet he doesn’t pay the additional, legally assessed taxes…

Maybe we just don’t have the same understanding of the word…

1. a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion.

In this case the false appearance is that he wishes to pay more taxes, when his actions show that he clearly does not.

2. : a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings.

His actions of not paying the IRS assessment is in contradiction to his stated belief and feeling that the super rich should pay more taxes.

Perhaps his secretary could pay less (as a percentage of her income) taxes than him, if she also chose to fight her assessment, and not send in the assessed amount.

AND we know about the fighting of the assessment because of the publication that he publishes. Any idea that he does not know about this is ridiculous to the extreme.