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Ah cool, so the government which is levying the taxes… and paying their salaries, claim it’s frivolous to argue any alternative point. Lol you can’t be serious?

I’m sure we all agree it judges are humans and apply laws in bias ways. There are plenty of Supreme Court cases we would consider insane today.

You’re not going to get any government official to claim “yes take my salary”.

Not going to happen.

I can read the bill of rights.

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A classical ad hominem, attacking the motive fallacy.

Ad hominem is not always a fallacy. This is an actual, material conflict of interest that the government has (which happens in all of tax law). The existence of that conflict does discount the validity of the sources somewhat, but it is an exercise for the reader to decide how much.

Personally, I'm not so convinced by the 5th amendment vs tax returns argument, but that's not because a bunch of government lawyers are telling me that the 5th amendment doesn't apply.

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