Cheats: those who do not pay their taxes are stealing from those of us who do
Governments in the free world have a responsibility, literally, a fiduciary duty to their country to preserve and protect the nation and its residents.
The Bermuda Constitution 1968 in Chapter 1, formally states: “Proctection: Of fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual, of right to life, from inhuman treatment, from slavery and forced labour, from arbitrary arrest or detention, to secure protection of law for privacy of home and other property, of freedom of conscience, of freedom of expression, of freedom of assembly and association, of freedom of movement, from discrimination on the grounds of race, etc, from deprivation of property, for provisions for time of war or emergency, and in enforcement of fundamental rights.“
As written by Mickey Edwards in The Atlantic: “The business of government is service — well managed, one hopes, and not wasteful, but never at a profit. There is no such thing as government money. Governments have no money; they have only what they take from their citizens, either in taxes or by inflation. And if government accrues profit, it can only have done so by taxing too much or eroding the value of the citizens’ income and savings — in either case doing harm, not good, to the people who have created it for the advantages such a common effort is presumed to bestow.”
Governments of today are swift to prosecute and punish those individuals, business,…
