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I can't blame someone for avoiding taxes, unless they are a blatant statist who encourages new taxes at every opportunity. This is hypocrisy to a T.

One of contenders for the most highly taxed country in the Western world has cut taxes significantly since 2006. Tight fiscal policy has pushed the public sector's share of GDP back down toward 50%. The economy is growing, the budget is balanced, unemployment is declining.
In five years in office, Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has repealed Sweden's wealth taxes and inheritance taxes. He has reduced the labor taxes that pushed almost all home repairs into the black market. He has championed a simple powerful idea: Work should pay better than benefits.

Cindy Sheehan has refused to provide financial information for the 2005 and 2006 tax years. She said she has a duty to not pay taxes because her son died in what she called an "immoral" war.

During their working life, undocumented immigrants in the United States will pay, on average, approximately $80,000 more in taxes per capita than they use in government services

Quick little example about the effects of taxes on the free market model. Taxes suck!

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has taken a bold stand against government over-reach: She is five days late paying her property taxes.

"Why pay taxes?" asked Fred Phillips, who owes more than $2,600 on his home on an east-side block where five owners paid 2011 taxes. "Why should I send them taxes when they aren't supplying services? It is sickening. … Every time I see the tax bill come, I think about the times we called and nobody came."

Are there plans to add another sales tax? Do taxes encourage or discourage people to purchase? What is the effect of taxes on an economy? What is your opinion?

Livonia might charge its residents a 1% administrative fee to collect their property taxes, beginning with the December tax bill.