According to President Obama, tax evasion is a crime morally equivalent to terrorism and child pornography.
At least, that’s what he seemed to imply when speaking at the South by Southwest festival this week. Instead of paying his last respects to former First Lady Nancy Reagan, he decided that being seen at the popular technology convention was more important.
His smug pleasure at being invited to speak almost certainly turned to disdain when he was questioned about the government’s ongoing attempts to crack the encryption on the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone in spite of Apple’s refusal to sanction it’s efforts.
Prefacing his comments with the disclosure that he cannot officially weigh in on the case, Obama proceeded to do almost exactly that, chiding observers with “absolutist view[s]” for not agreeing that the government should have some sort of backdoor into electronic devices.
Doubling down on his remarks, Obama insinuated that the lack of iPhone backdoors will keep law enforcement from apprehending terrorist plotters, child pornographers, and worst of all… people who don’t pay their taxes!
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how can we cheat? every penny we own is documented. more power to those who can save on their taxes. it is so criminal the way our tax dollars are being spent.
Like Al Sharpton!
He won’t be happy until the constitution is repealed ! What a disgrace!
You want lock up your own friends for tax evasion .
He’s the biggest tax thief of them all. He keeps using our money to take his lavish vacations instead of his own salary.
Obama’s nation is nothing more then a spy ring.
What difference would it make? You have lots of taxpayers who fail to pay their taxes, that you are well aware of. Like Mr. Sharpton. Don’t see anything being done about that. But, some poor fool making 30k a yr. ends up owing $500, and you’ll probably send the swap team after him. What a joke.
he has a lot of people he has on his list cheating.
He opens his mouth and out pours lies, lies and more lies. The major tax evaders are his friends.
He is so full of c**p it is ooozing out of his oversize ears !