Why do people say it's okay to cheat on your Taxes?

Because the government taxes the hell out of the middle class which is also by far the largest class in America. It works out that on average a member of the middle class will work 4-5 months out the year just paying the government taxes. There is no law about income tax in this country that is why there are hundreds of Supreme court cases rejected each year by the supreme court. You can find interviews online with ex officials from the IRS talking about how corrupt the whole fed system is. This country still practices Reaganomics where the rich are taxed less so the money can trickle down from there endevors on to the common man. Ill leave you with this fact. The way this country taxes its people works out so that Bill Gates secretary who makes 60,000 a year is taxed 20% more than Bill Gates.... Think about it. Im no liberal but this is just wrong.

Those would be the people that haven't been caught yet.

Because they figure the government deserves it and that they will never get caught. Not worth the risk if you ak me.

Some people will make up any reason they can do not file their taxes. The actual reason is that they want more money to spend and they do not want to give it to the government. The IRS has a nice little page discussing a bunch of the different schemes and bogus arguments that the tax avoiding crowd toss about. It even has court cases where people lost trying to use these arguments.

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-utl/friv_tax....

Because they think the government owes them something, after taking so much of their hard-earned money. Get as many deductions as you can, but don't cheat- its just not worth it. You'd have to pull some crazy crap for the IRS to come after you.

There are idiots everywhere. If you cheat, sooner or later you'll get caught out.