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Tires can be obtained via a quick trip out of state.

That’s true of most taxes. People buy gas and cigarettes at Native American reservations all the time. How many people pay sales or income taxes for a private sale? Lots of people do landscaping, farm work, and simple handyman work “under the table” without paying income taxes.

Preventing tax avoidance is a terrible excuse for Big Brother surveillance.

It just means you want a better way to assess tax liability than buying tires. We are not limited to "tires or GPS"; we have myriad other alternatives.

We could always try having more efficient government that doesn’t need to try so hard to squeeze every tax dollar they can out of the middle class.

We wouldn’t even need to touch entitlement programs if we just got rid of wasteful pork spending and streamlined some of the bureaucracy.

1. There is no middle class remaining. Tax revenue comes principally from the underclass now. You and I are in the underclass. The upper class (>$10M/y) dodge taxes.

2. Roads need to be paid for somehow.

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