Wesley Snipes is Not At Fault

Oh heavens no.

December 8, 2010 at 3:00PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
FILE - In a March 2, 2010 file photo Wesley Snipes attends a movie premiere in New York.  Snipes was ordered to start his three-year sentence for failing to pay taxes at a federal prison in Pennsylvania next week. The U.S. Marshal's Office issued a notice Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010 ordering Snipes to voluntarily surrender at the Federal Correctional Institution McKean in Lewis Run, Pa., by noon on Dec. 9. Snipes had tried unsuccessfully to remain free on bail while appealing his conviction to the U.S. Supreme Court.  (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, File)
(AP/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Oh, no, it's not his fault. It's those devilish accountants with their awesome powers of persuasion:

Did King just nod and say mmm-hmm or did he ask Snipes about, well, this?

Essentially, he sent them Monopoly money and stuck out his tongue, because he had a deep intellectual conviction that every single piece of settled law about the tax system is wrong, and you really don't have to pay. You can imagine his surprise when he found out taxes are illegal, and everyone else was mistaken. Including the government! Boy, this will just change everything, he must have thought. Wait 'til I tell my friends!

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