>If you make 200k in fiat, you pay a lot in taxes. If you make 4k
in silver, you pay nothing
Sounds great, right? Cuz the "justice" system in this country is fair and not corrupt and controlled by TPTB like the IRS.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the criminal conviction of Robert Kahre, the man who incurred the wrath of the IRS by paying his employees in gold coin. Since the face value of the gold coins was significantly below the legal threshold that triggers withholding taxes, the Court held that Kahre didn’t do his duty to serve as tax collector for the U.S. welfare-warfare state by withholding income taxes from the monies paid to his employees. He’s now serving a 15-year sentence—yes, 15 years in a federal penitentiary!
https://www.fff.org/2013/12/09/the-u-s-vs-robert-kahre-a-horrific-miscarriage-of-justice/