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RE: Rapper DMX Sentenced To A Year In Prison For Tax Fraud - Songs Played In Court As Defense
DMX has imposed many costs on society, more than most, the costs of roads and police to arrest him and the government using force to protect his intellectual property from thieves. Without the government using force on people then he couldn't make a dime as a recording artist, everything would be pirated.
But while raking in millions from his songs, including his 2003 hit ‘X Gon’ Give it to Ya,’ DMX didn’t give any of it to the IRS.
LOL
Government imposed those costs, not DMX.
DMX profited from the imposition of those costs.
Irrelevant. And being robbed and kidnapped for something that is not fundamentally criminal is not a benefit.
So he should profit from the system but not pay back in?
Yes, because a broken system should be torn down, not propped up. Should slaves have refused food, shelter, and clothing from their owners in order to combat the injustice of slavery? Government is just a big plantation, and we are free-range tax cattle.
Yeah, that's pretty rude to actual slaves isn't it? when was the last time you were beaten or sold?
Slavery has manifested itself in many forms throughout history. The chattel slavery of the antebellum South is not the only one. We are objectively not free, and as evidence of that, I point to every mandate for government permission, including licenses, registrations, permits, and regulatory red tape to buy, sell, or even build on your own property. Every tax is a claim of superior ownership over your life by the government. As for beatings, look at every instance of police brutality in enforcing laws against non-crimes. And as for sales, we can't even buy our freedom from the government's plantation system.
you might want to check out NH, there are surprisingly few permits required, you don't even have to have car insurance.
the vast majority of people are arrested without any police brutality and police brutality is not legal, they are both criminally and civilly liable for it, slaves can be brutalized all you want and they don't have legal redress.
a key difference between you and a slave, among other things, is that you are free to go.
Anarchistbot: "yeah, to another plantation man!"