This guy gets it.

Today's lesson is that there are far too many Asperger types interested in Bitcoin and Rand!

Tax could be considered theft, if you were not already aware of the deal for employment in your country.

If you are not willing to pay a percentage of your income in tax, you are not allowed to work.  That rule applies before you accepted the deal to work for an income. In an ideal Rand world, you would have read all the terms and conditions before you took on the contract - wouldn't you?

If you don't work, you don't get an income, and might consider government charity - also known as welfare benefits.  If you are not willing to accept the rules of the country, you don't get those either!

The down side of some ideologies is that they don't work in the real world.  This seems to be true for all the isms like communism, socialism, Marxism etc, but also for Libertarianism and Capitalism.

The only system that actually works is corporatism - and that one is awful!

While bitcoin could make things better, it needs to get through the isms that wants it dead - and that is quite a task!

In the long run, governments are handicapping their own currencies by making them incapable of buying Bitcoins. In the short term however, this really is a problem. I wrote an article about this a week or so ago. Kind of extreme, but it's really just food for thought. If you're interested...

https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/207764.0;all

Merely living does not imply consent to be robbed.

Please do take away all government services, including the SEC, DEA, CIA, IRS, DHS, FBI, FDA, EPA, NSA, TSA, DOT, CPS, Foreign Aid, bank bailouts, automobile bailouts, welfare, warfare, and everything else.

Are you saying that anyone who does not pay taxes and still uses government services is a thief?

Where and when and in what circumstances was this deal you are talking about concluded? Can you offer us some facts on who made this deal?

I have sent 3 wires into Bitstamp from BoA and they all were credited in less than 24 hours. A bit costly for smaller amounts as BoA has a $45 international wire fee and Bitstamp a $15 fee but convenient and pain free otherwise.

What kind of regulation do you welcome:
a) the voluntarily one agreed on and enforced between consenting individuals, or
b) agreed by a small number of people and coercively forced onto non-consenting individuals at a gun point?

No problem, that's not your fault.

Not as long as you comply to their rules, and pay whatever taxes they tell you to pay.

Stop paying your taxes, and by definition you become a criminal and will be treated as such.

Regardless of the whole tax thing, you Americans seem to think that the USA is the "land of the free" but it's actually one of the most restricted NON-free countries in the world.

Try it. Stop paying your taxes, and eventually, they will.

Tell that to Ed and Elaine Brown who tried to live peacefully and free but because they did not pay taxes were survailed by SWAT teams and police for weeks for not paying taxes and then finally attacked. And when they chose to defend themselves (as a free person will do when attacked) they had more charges thrown against them and are now in jail for life.

Or Irwin Schiff who had all of his property seized and was taken away to jail after being in front of a judge who said "I will not allow evidence in my court room".

They take you to jail.

Do not ever claim that America is the land of the free as long as people cannot live free without being kidnapped and held prisoner.

Please don't do that again. My keyboard's warranty doesn't cover vomit damage.