Re:The Truth About Frivolous Tax Arguments
by dragonwriter on Monday February 22, 2016 @04:54PM
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> Serious question - was this person downvoted because of the particular argument they presented, or because of the quality of the argument?
If it was posted in response to a an "Ask HN: What should we do with federal income tax policy?" or "Ask HN: How would you reduce the power of the IRS?", it would be on topic and less worthy of downvotes (of course, both of those threads would probably be flag worthy as improper for HN, but that's a different issue.)
Even for the first of those contexts, its really inadequately argued. But, in the context of the actual thread, its basically off-topic noise.
If it was posted in response to a an "Ask HN: What should we do with federal income tax policy?" or "Ask HN: How would you reduce the power of the IRS?", it would be on topic and less worthy of downvotes (of course, both of those threads would probably be flag worthy as improper for HN, but that's a different issue.)
Even for the first of those contexts, its really inadequately argued. But, in the context of the actual thread, its basically off-topic noise.