It's what people do.

Norwegians defy tax-free rulesWeary of high prices and high taxes, Norwegians are smuggling goods into the country like never before. At least a third are believed to bring home more goods than their tax-free quotas allow, and it's not just tobacco and spirits that's being sneaked over the border. It's mostly the tax-free quotas on alcoholic beverages that the average Norwegian disregards most often, reports newspaper Aftenposten. Wine, for example, can cost as much as 40 percent less even in the state-controlled liquor stores in Sweden, where taxes still are higher than most other places in the world.
That makes it more than a little tempting for Norwegians in Sweden to pick up an extra 3-liter carton of wine before heading home. The recent sharp reduction of limits on what the Swedes themselves can bring home, along with their counterparts all over Europe, also have left many Norwegians thinking that the strict limits and high taxes they still must live with are simply unfair.
So they've literally been taking matters into their own hands. Customs inspectors along the Swedish border and at Oslo's main airport at Gardermoen say smuggling is up as much as 50 percent, given the sheer increase in the number of citations they've issued lately.
"We have a clear increase in the number of small, but illegal cases that end up with a fine," Per Johansen, regional director of the toll district for eastern Norway, told Aftenposten. "We're talking about normal folks who come home with 10 liters of wine or some extra bottles of liquor."
Johansen said the culprits come from all socio-economic levels of Norwegian society. Lars Vidar Ramdahl of the customs control post at Svinesund, on Norway's southern border to Sweden, said few Norwegians quarrel with the fines.
"They know what they're doing," he said, and many tend to laugh it off when they get caught.

Can this article really be considered news? People will do everything they can to avoid paying taxes. And contrary to what anyone says, No one likes paying (ANY) taxes. Hell, America was built on rum runners and bootleggers plying their trade where the tax man does not tread.

As far as the people of this country have been brainwashed to accept socialism and onerous taxation, most understand what is happening; governments take as much as you will allow them to take; take care of your purse.