POSNER, Circuit Judge.
We must try to make sense of two overlapping tax statutes that lack any implicit or explicit cross-reference — statutes that exist as it were in a state of mutual oblivion. The earlier enacted one, 26 U.S.C. § 6672(a), imposes "a penalty equal to the total amount of the tax evaded, or not collected, or not accounted for and paid over" on anyone who, being "required to collect, truthfully account for, and pay over any tax," willfully...
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