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Originally Posted by martyh
Do you mean support or agree with .We all have to support and abide by laws ,we don't necessarily have to agree with them .Your premise that i must support everything that is legal until proven otherwise is correct ,i don't have to agree with it ,Heero doesn't have to agree with legal highs but he does have to support peoples right to use them .People using loopholes in tax law are free to do so until the hole is closed regardless of who agrees and who does not .It is the basis of our legal system
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As I made clear above, I mean support. In the US Supreme Court there are Constitutional originalists and those who think that it is a framework and thus open to interpretation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Constitution
Both views have perfectly valid arguments. I am a supporter of a living framework for our legal system. Many things would've been written into law if they were known about and a legal framework needs to be flexible to adapt to new challenges and more importantly, that people should respect the intention, as well as the letter of the law.
If a bad law is created, the best way to prove it is bad, and thus punish whoever thought it via the democratic process. In the case of Tax law, if certain tax classes are too high, then push for them to be lowered. In a country which running a deficit however, that is certainly up for debate.