I thought The Annoying Orange said something about you not having to pay taxes?
As a non American: as a form of protest, instead of doing protests in the streets, why don't you just stop paying taxes?
It seems to me you have a very easy way to tell your government you're fed up with it or just as a form of protest.
I'm sure your gov has a horrible way of inforcing taxation, but you actually do have the option of not-paying.
They already have our tax money, unfortunately. It's taken from our paychecks and then we get to play a stupid game of "guess the number or jail" every April
If you set your withholdings really high the amount taken drops by quite a bit.
And then when it comes time to pay, just get on a super low monthly payment plan.
And then just keep tacking amounts onto that each year.
I am not a lawyer. But I can say myself and another friend have been doing this (him for years and years) and so far nothing of note has happened. His goal is to just die with a balance owed.
America was founded on "no taxation without representation". What representation does the average American have now?
Americans returning to their roots, organising to starve this government of funding and creating community funds with the money that would be spent on taxation would make a huge change. Using money for community good instead of fascism. With transparency and equitable funding, as taxation should be.
The difficulty is it would need to be organised among many people. A few individuals withholding taxes will just bring the hammer of the government down upon them. Several million, with perhaps a couple states as well, would be a very different story.
Yeah, sure, Musk and Bezos etc could theoretically fund things from their own personal wealth for a while. But we've seen their personalities, they're too greedy to do that. And it's not sustainable long term.
Perhaps a good place to start, is here:
You're not rich so the IRS will haul your ass to jail.
Until a significant portion of the population does the same
How would they know if I am rich if they can't see my taxes? 🤔
/s btw
Worked for the POTUS.
But have they seen the DOW?
Industrial averages are definitely top of mind when I'm buying groceries I don't know what you're talking about
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