It's certainly more morally complex than just scamming somebody. Money is property. People generally agree that once you earn your money, it belongs to you. Is the government automatically entitled to part of it? The Boston Tea Party, the Women's Tax Resistance League, and Gandhi's Salt March are a few examples where people said no.
Usually in this context the "evaders" will refer to it as tax resistance or tax protest. It is a form of civil disobedience. The government being disobeyed, of course, is unlikely to see it that way, and in a modern context, would call it evasion. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_resistance
The Indian example is especially poignant because refusing to pay salt taxes was one of their key strategies for achieving independence from the British, and they managed to do it without firing a shot. So yeah I'd say refusing to pay the salt tax was a big win morally and probably saved a lot of lives.
What the best examples typically have in common is that the government in question didn't possess the consent of the governed. In the case of the British WTRL the refrain was "No vote, no tax." If the government won't let women vote then what right does it have to tax them? Women weren't able to indicate consent (or lack thereof) via the political process, and they were ultimately successful in their argument that this taxation without representation was unjust. Incidentally this line of thinking was expanded upon decades later across the pond in the US, which ultimately decided via the 26th amendment that it was immoral to draft men into the army when they were still too young to vote, and lowered the voting age to 18.
> Is the government automatically entitled to part of it? The Boston Tea Party, the Women's Tax Resistance League, and Gandhi's Salt March are a few examples where people said no.
Your argument doesn't make sense. The example you cite are examples of protest against unjust taxation not that "the government is not entitled" to any of my crypto. As you yourself elaborate in the following paragraphs. Are you seriously suggesting parallels between the crypto bros and Gandhi in that they are both participating in civil disobedience? Oh. Please.
And SBF is just a modern day MLK because both are referred to by TLAs!
I think it makes perfect sense in its immediate context, my parent asked a question about the morality of tax evasion, I gave some examples where there was wide consensus that people not paying their taxes was moral, but it still would have been referred to as evasion. Other people were bringing up examples of tradesmen and stuff, not just crypto. I will leave it to the federal government to render the final verdict on SBF but he ain't got shit on Gandhi, that's for sure.
Your examples of tax protest were by people who didn't really want to be a part of the government they weren't paying taxes to, or felt they weren't being treated properly as a class.
This doesn't seem to want crypto or finance exchanges. Thistle people just want the benefits of the government without paying for it.
Usually in this context the "evaders" will refer to it as tax resistance or tax protest. It is a form of civil disobedience. The government being disobeyed, of course, is unlikely to see it that way, and in a modern context, would call it evasion. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_resistance
The Indian example is especially poignant because refusing to pay salt taxes was one of their key strategies for achieving independence from the British, and they managed to do it without firing a shot. So yeah I'd say refusing to pay the salt tax was a big win morally and probably saved a lot of lives.
What the best examples typically have in common is that the government in question didn't possess the consent of the governed. In the case of the British WTRL the refrain was "No vote, no tax." If the government won't let women vote then what right does it have to tax them? Women weren't able to indicate consent (or lack thereof) via the political process, and they were ultimately successful in their argument that this taxation without representation was unjust. Incidentally this line of thinking was expanded upon decades later across the pond in the US, which ultimately decided via the 26th amendment that it was immoral to draft men into the army when they were still too young to vote, and lowered the voting age to 18.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_acts_of_tax... for hundreds of examples you might or might not agree with ...!