{"id":1026,"date":"2007-01-23T10:44:26","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T14:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2007\/01\/23\/before-i-get-judgemental\/"},"modified":"2007-01-23T10:45:29","modified_gmt":"2007-01-23T14:45:29","slug":"before-i-get-judgemental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2007\/01\/23\/before-i-get-judgemental\/","title":{"rendered":"Before I Get Judgemental&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Could somebody please explain to me the details of that man up in New Hampshire who is refusing to pay over $700,000 in income taxes to the federal government? From the glimpses of news reports that I&#8217;ve seen (while distracted by internet and other shiny objects) all I can ascertain is that he was a doctor (or lawyer?) who refuses to pay taxes because he never signed a contract with the government promising to pay taxes (and that the constitution doesn&#8217;t explicitly say he will have to pay taxes).<\/p>\n<p>Is there more to it than that? Am I missing something? I must be&#8230;because now he&#8217;s holed up in his uber-McMansion in the middle of nowhere with battery power, generators and enough food to sustain himself for quite some time. He&#8217;s blocked his driveway from governmental officials and I hear he&#8217;s also part of some militia.<\/p>\n<p>So, if anybody knows more about this &#8211; whether to correct the facts that I may have gotten wrong or just to provide mroe information &#8211; I&#8217;d appreciate it.<\/p>\n<p>Because right now I&#8217;m just annoyed at him and I&#8217;m sick of this popping up on the news everyday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Could somebody please explain to me the details of that man up in New Hampshire who is refusing to pay over $700,000 in income taxes to the federal government? From the glimpses of news reports that I&#8217;ve seen (while distracted by internet and other shiny objects) all I can ascertain is that he was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}