Depending on where you reside, the tax penalties

Depending on where you reside, the tax penalties could be very significant. I thinking anywhere from 15 - 30 points (withholding by brokerages houses) at the get go; and worse by years end, from the government grinders. Ahhhh, to have such woes! Perhaps our North American home lands are not so free and more communist than we're led to believe :0)