I think this is another example of a conspiracy theory which is actually
going to cause harm to people, at least in the US:

  It seems that in recent years there has been an increasingly popular
conspiracy theory in the United States that claims that having to pay
income tax is unconstitutional, the relevant amendment to the constitution
was not properly ratified, there is no actual law in the US which requires
people to pay income taxes, and hence the whole income tax thing is a big
hoax by which the government is fooling people to make them pay money,
even though there's no law to support that. It is claimed that, for example,
former IRS employees have come out on the open and stated that this is so,
that the whole thing is a scam, and that they haven't paid any taxes ever
since they discovered the fact, and have been doing that with impunity for
years.

  One would think that the above is just a big practical joke. Something
you send in a chainmail or something. However, it seems that many people
are actually seriously pushing forward that conspiracy theory.

  Of course if people start believing it, they will be in big trouble.
They will go to jail for tax evasion, and in many cases lives and families
will be ruined. All because of a joke some people took seriously.

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                                                          - Warp

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