Yes 
I feel a little bummed when i hear about taxes but whatever, its ok, if you arent selling your steem you have to taxes. Rewards you get paid in steem are not taxable untill you sell them for fiat, and you also have to actually power them down, they cant expect us to power down to pay taxes on money we dont have, this subject makes me very very angry. All taxation is theft and if people want to pay taxes let them volunteer leave the rest of us alone, people think taxes are not theft if its just the right amount ... so i can steal from them as long as I use the money to help people :D lol
But hey whatever i need to realize that if we DONT self regulate and report SOMETHING that will have to do it for us, and if we just all start reporting a FRACTION of what we make, all legally, avoiding but not evading, well, we can just self regulate, the government will assume we are all paying our taxes, when were all just probably giving them a TINY bit of money, but they wont know... stupid public sector low IQ fools... we will dominate all government workers minds, they are our slaves , government workers are our servants, our bitches. Im so sick of the weak public sector leftist socialistic looters.
Steem will help with this problem of lazy people being fed lazy bad ideas, no in the future when people have a debate on steem based blockchain, the poor socialists wont have any stake to upvote their shitty ideas but Capitalism will pay for its OWN upvotes! Rich people will be spreading GOOD ideas and the good ideas will multiply.
And yes its great that jesta is actually making a good living off this, and eos has embraced him as a Developer God with 
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