we order justice and administer the state, and still remains, has entered into an implied contract that he will do as we command him. And he who disobeys us [the laws] is, as we maintain, thrice wrong: first, because in disobeying us he is disobeying his parents; secondly, because we are the authors of his education; thirdly, because he has made an agreement with us that he will duly obey our commands; and he neither obeys them nor convinces us that our commands are unjust (Plato, Crito 634-5).
The context for this characterization of the laws is Crito's attempt to persuade Socrates to escape Athens, where he has been convicted of corrupting the youth of the city. Socrates takes the position that escape is the wrong response to the evil of the soci ety and indeed that anyone who enjoys the advantages of the society is not justified in escaping. By this logic, an incorrect taxpayer response to taxes for annexing Baja would be to deliberately sabotage one's tax return or to create fictitious deductions that would have the effect of "escaping" one's fair share of the t
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