re why is tax evasion not considered unpatriotic in article c vy c t newsserver technet sg ipser solomon technet sg ed ipser writes in article mar pmafire inel gov cdm pmafire inel gov dale cook writes in article pasrg ife s gov lip s gov loren i petrich writes the title is self explanatory isaac asimov once pointed out that curious fact well since tax evasion is illegal one generally would not bother to consider whether it was unpatriotic or not how often does one think of murder as being unpatriotic perhaps a more appropriate question would be why is tax avoidance not considered unpatriotic the answer to this is simple tax avoidance is simply defined as paying the minimum tax you are legally obligated to pay there is a deeper reason taxes by their very nature are un american one need only look at the birth and history of the us to see this fact wasn t the beef with the english over taxation without representation not taxation itself from my admittedly dim recollection of us history most of the problems we americans have had with taxes have been with unfair unjust taxation schemes not with taxes themselves it s pretty hard to run a government without any means of support dale cook any town having more churches than bars has a serious social problem edward abbey the opinions are mine only i e they are not my employer s
