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WHAT MAKES TAX PROTESTERS TICK?

October 25, 2006

Columnist Katherine Pender uses the Wesley Snipes case as a hook to discuss the tax protest movement in an article reproduced in the Redding Record Searchlight of California. She notes how many folks who fall for tax protest arguments are folks you'd think would know better. She quotes tax attorney Fred Daly:

"I've seen people pay as much as $10,000 to sit in a seminar; they come away with a workbook that will show you how to untax yourself," he says.

"What always amazes me is that the type of people who fall for this are otherwise fairly well-educated, sophisticated people - airline pilots, engineers, dentists," Daly says. "These people should know better, but if you want to believe something strongly enough and it's in your best interest to do so, you can suspend your powers of reason."

Of course, Redding is home to Al Thompson, a leading light of the tax protest world. Mr. Thompson is spending his time away from home nowadays.

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