The phrase “our system is based upon voluntary compliance” has led more people to jail and ruin than any other ever propogated by government. Whoever came up with that ludicrous phrase really ought to be shot, drawn and quartered, tarred and feathered, and forced to listen to an endless loop of Barry Manilow muzak while to chained to a prison cell somewhere in Central America. Of course, what was meant, was that the U.S. relies on its citizens voluntarily COMPLYING with the law, in that it would be difficult to force everyone to comply. This is why we have income withholding. If the taxpayers themselves had to write out the checks to the government every payday, we would have revolt. But you can’t miss what you don’t see.

Unfortunately, some see that “voluntary” language and think, “Well, I’ll just unvolunteer.” And then they incur huge penalties, ruining them financially, tearing apart their families, and possibly even jail – thereby losing their livelihoods and any possibility of paying their debt. And then we have Dingy Harry coming out with a thoroughly pathetic defense of the notion of “voluntariness”. This governmental/political need to try to paint the tax system as less than what it is has caused, and will continue to cause, thousands of people to be ruined personally and financially. But will it ever touch Harry Reid? Will it ever touch the pols who take more and more of the citizens hard earned money? Will the person who wrote that nonsense into IRS forms ever feel anything toward those he or she misled? Will any of them care, or at least notice enough to change it? Of course not.

Or am I confusing that with someone else?

WARNING: JOKE folks… just interjecting some levity

My essential point is that the average politicians mindset is so warped that, to harry “the body” reid, the “taxes are voluntary” statement makes complete sense. It’s voluntary in the sense you can e-file or just mail it in like grandpa did. All politicians are guilty of this sort of thinking so some degree. Indeed, as time goes on, even the most promising young politicians is often corrupted to the point of no return by operating inside the beltway.

Did I fall asleep some time in January and wake up in an Orwell novel?

Poorly phrased, but his concept is exactly the thinking of the Left.

But don’t tell me that that payroll confiscation of taxes is VOLUTARY.
No W4/1099/1040 , off the to IRS(or lower level authority) judge and jail with you.
Wnat to drive ANYWHERE, you have to pay fuel tax
Want to buty ANYTHING non-food in many states, SALES TAX
Harry may have aged from the original of this video, but with age has come greater insanity, which is why the Wicked Witch(es) of the West lead him around by the Ba^7^7$
(Pelosi, Frankenstein, Water(board)s, Boxbat)

“your” is possessive
“You’re” means “you are”

It’s a contraction, see.