Howard's arguments that it is 'immoral for the United States government to charge taxes to the descendants of slaves' do not appear to have swayed the judge
A U.S. federal judge does not appear to have been moved by actor Terrence Howard’s claims that it is “immoral for the United States government to charge taxes to the descendants of slaves,” issuing an order today for Howard to pay nearly $1 million he allegedly owes in unpaid taxes and attendant fees.
In said call, Howard—who apparently ran out of time mid-sentence, and then called back to continue his missive—expounded at length on the topic of taxes, including saying that “Four hundred years of forced labor and never receiving any compensation for it. Now you have the gall to try and prosecute and charge taxes to the descendants of a broken people that you are responsible for causing the breakage.
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