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new demographic!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/14/busine…

From 1999 to 2004, the actor Wesley Snipes earned $38 million appearing in more than half a dozen movies… The taxes he paid in the same period? Zero.

But unlike other celebrities who find themselves on the wrong side of the Internal Revenue Service, Mr. Snipes has a flamboyant explanation: he argues that he is not actually required to pay taxes…

His involvement with the tax resistance movement may stem from his association with the Nuwaubians, a quasi-religious sect of black Americans who promote antigovernment theories and who set up a headquarters in Georgia in the early 1990s.

In 2000, Mr. Snipes sought a federal permit for a military training compound on land next to the Nuwaubian camp; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms rejected the request…

Apparently you don’t have to be white, from New Hampshire, and own a shorwave receiver to be a certain kind of crazy.

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4 Responses to “new demographic!”

  1. eddie Says:
    January 14th, 2008 at 10:15 am

    Dude. His name is “Snipes”. Can’t be just a coincidence.

  2. HTRN Says:
    January 14th, 2008 at 1:24 pm

    So, what your saying is, as long as I don’t move to New Hampshire, I can consider myself well adjusted?

    That’s a relief – the Voices were INSISTING that state of residency doesn’t matter. :)

  3. Scott Says:
    January 14th, 2008 at 5:00 pm

    No, he's saying that I can stay in New Hampshire as long as I sell my two shortwave radios (which are gathering dust in the closet anyway). Meh, these days I get far more via tcp/ip than I get from radio waves bouncing off the ionosphere.

  4. ngvrnd Says:
    January 14th, 2008 at 10:37 pm

    Yes, shortwave receivers are still de rigeur for inclusion in the club.