So Roger Ver renounced his citizenship to flee the country to avoid paying taxes on his billions of dollars worth of crypto. He thought that would work, but part of renouncing your citizenship is paying an exit tax on the value. Closing the balance, yeah. He didn't correctly file that stuff. I think it's entirely fair if you want to just argue that you shouldn't have to pay an exit tax or something like that. Like, that's an argument we could have. But to pretend that this guy gives a single shit about America is hilarious. He became a citizen of St. Kitts and Nevis to avoid paying taxes in the United States.

But this, what he's saying is all great and stuff, but I think that what really happened, Is that Aaron Russo doesn't like taxes. Right. Is that why he moved to Tahiti? He owed a lot of taxes. And at this point, he has about $2 million in liens.

He is yet another guy who decided not to pay his taxes, got in trouble for it in 2007, then in court pleaded, quote, I sincerely thought I didn't need to do that, using that as a defense in order to get out of criminal trouble.

The IRS said that he owed him just north of $1.7 million.

Bannister's first real run-in with the law, though, regarding his tax beliefs happened in 2004, when Bannister was charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, as well as three counts of aiding and assisting the filing of false tax returns.

So, Thompson was found guilty and sentenced to 72 months in prison.

In short, the court found that Bob Schultz was using his tax-protesting tax-exempt organization as a, quote, abusive tax shelter.

He was in prison for millions of dollars of tax evasion. That is it. Yeah, not political prisoner.