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When legal processes punish the innocent through sheer burden

I am being audited by the IRS and even though I have done nothing wrong the process is so invasive and expensive that I understand why people just pay whatever they demand.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The weight of defending oneself within legal systems can become its own form of injustice regardless of ultimate outcomes.

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