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Article: What we should be doing to make a better country: firefighters can help due to their prominence in our communities.(FIRST RESPONDER FINANCE)
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- Firehouse Magazine
- Article date:
- June 1, 2009
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Supreme Court Justice Learned Hand advised Americans to avoid paying taxes by every possible means as long as those means are within the guidelines of the law. Taxes help to guarantee our way of life within the greatest aggregation of freedoms in the history of man. I do not resent taxes and pay them gladly, after paying fanatical attention to the laws that can possibly reduce my tax load.
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I am not one of those who suggest we should not pay taxes at all. Still, I am one who believes for very definite reasons that there is no legal basis for the paying of income taxes, and I would be happy if someone could produce a legal document ...