>>What happens when one doesn't pay taxes according to the rules of the IRS? Confiscation of property
So you can see the difference. Taxation is part of the social compact. Break the social compact and now you may face confiscation - and not just for evading taxes, either. Viola, a key difference.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
