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If you try to stop him, he will kill you.

Assuming "him" is the government, no, he won't, unless you try to stop him violently. The government doesn't kill people who don't pay taxes. Your analogy doesn't work.




The Waco and Ruby Ridge incidents were about not paying taxes.

The Supreme Court said "Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife." In these cases, heavily armed agents raided homes for want of $200 in NFA manufacturing taxes; whether heavily-armored men crashing thru windows carrying automatic weapons actually fired the first shot, or baited the occupants into "threatening behavior", is irrelevant: the government killed people who didn't pay taxes.


So you can keep a key of your vault with your unpaid taxes and no one will try to take it from you by force? Bank manager will not go to jail if he does not make a wire transfer from your account to IRS?




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