Comment by immibis

Imagine you start a business in another country where the law says your business assets will be seized if you don't file tax form 123(a) before August. That is to say, non-filers don't have any business property rights. And you don't file the form.

Do you:

(Plan A) Realize you fucked up

Or

(Plan B) Send in the military to kidnap the president and take over the country, retroactively claim the law wasn't the law, undo its effects (but only for you) and then change the law so that property rights work exactly the same way they work in your country.

Now you see why people are saying plan B is bad, and would cause everyone to be at war all the time.