Amy Kirschner writes about the Liberty Dollar debacle:

Report your earnings on your taxes and pay your taxes - it’s the law. If you have issues with the IRS and taxes, there are other movements and organizations that address that. Don’t use local currency for that reason.

For all you burgeoning alternative, complementary, local currency buffs out there, is Amy correct? Why shouldn’t local currency be used as a platform for talking about taxation and the IRS? On one level, it seems to make a lot of sense as a thematic match: community currencies keep value within a community. Taxes - on the most elementary level of understanding - remove value from a community (which, ideally, is supposed to be invested back into the community, I suppose).

This point needs to be made clearer for people on all sides of this conversation, I think.