Morality and the IRS | Richard W. Rahn | Cato Institute: Commentary

Morality and the IRS | Richard W. Rahn | Cato Institute: Commentary: "It is unambiguously true that the tax code and IRS are creatures of Congress, with all of its self-dealing, corruption, ignorance and incompetence. But it also is true, and was made explicit at the Nuremberg trials, that those who carry out orders that they know to be wrong or should know to be wrong are not absolved of personal responsibility."

"The French political and economic philosopher Frederic Bastiat correctly said, 'No society can exist unless the laws are respected to a certain degree, but the safest way to make them respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality are in contradiction to each other, the citizen finds himself in the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense, or of losing his respect for the law.'"