A rich man ...

[Richard]

What is your answer?  I go with B.

[MaC]

B or C would be fine.  It would be even better if he spoke out about how he's evading and encourage other freedom fighters to do the same.

[John Dibble]

Option 2 would be fine with me, though 3 would be perfectly legal in this example. If he's rich enough, the IRS will notice and they'll ask Congress to close the loophole.

[Bono]

Preventive Strike:
Since there is no such thing as objective morality, the rich man should just do what he is most confortable with.

Ok, now that the cop-out is taken care off, we can have some groundbreaking discussion here.

[Nym90]

Option 1.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

C. Its his money and not the state's.

[patrick1]

I would go with option A.  However, I would use the words wrong and Un-American. Despite the massive amounts of government waste this individual still benefits from government spending (however tangentially it may be).  The individual is a free rider.  He benefits from the defense spending that protects our shores, the government subsidies for road building, crop subsidies, clean water and air etc, etc,

[Emsworth]

As Learned Hand said in 1934:

"Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes... [T]here is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs [because] nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands."

[nclib]

The honorable thing would be Option 1.

[adam]

Write-In: It's not our business to pry into said Rich Man's affairs.

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Appearantly it's only immoral for poors to avoid paying taxes.

[bullmoose88]

Option B (2).

Its his/her money, but I think he/her has a duty (me personally) to use the money for the good of all. That said, it is his/her and its his/her right to do with it as he/she chooses.

[Inverted Things]

If I was the rich guy... I'd keep the money.

[Jake]

As long as it's legal, Option B or C is fine. I choose B because donating to charity is something that should be expected for those with the means.

[John Dibble]

Appearantly it's only immoral for poors to avoid paying taxes.

Actually, by this poll it seems more of us think that a poor man should not only not pay, but should keep it all instead of giving some to charity.

[MODU]

Option C.  However, the government needs to see why he's not paying anything and close the loophole.

[J. J.]

That person might be getting that income from tax exempt municipal bonds, for example.  He may have just loaned a city $25,000,000 for municipal projects and that is where he's getting that income.

Of course, he does not have to loan it and the city can stop supplying services.

[opebo]

Of course there is no objective morality, and this man would be well advised to act in his own interests from the position of great power he enjoys.  However the masses would be well advised to attempt to prevent this - his interests and theirs are diametrically opposed.