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captainstrange ago

If we all paid are taxes in full save for a single dollar, it would,

  1. distribute the risk

  2. add up very quickly.

A million dollars isn't shit to the IRS, but to the average person on the street? Thats gonna get some airtime.

If they prosecute they look incredibly petty and lose politically.

If the don't prosecute, then the effort snowballs.

We don't have to stop paying our taxes completely. We just have to move the overton window in the public's perspective a single inch and associate not paying part of your taxes with "the right to protest".

If they take it to court anyway, we argue "money is freespeech".

If they turn it down we change venue make it an issue of "taxation without representation", demanding ballot boxes be seized and recounted.

It could work.

drstrangegov ago

Yes but they will take what I do give them and use it against us. Were funding THEIR war effort. For services NOT rendered.

captainstrange ago

Yep. And that is why Drstrangegov, it is important to set a precedent.

One dollar, or even five, is a small enough action that anyone can do it, would do it.

Like Normundy, you first have to establish a beachhead, a crack in the dam is what starts the flood.

Got to water that tree of liberty some how, might as well be in dollars instead of blood.

drstrangegov ago

My name is Tim. Part of our whole problem is anonymity. Shitheads whispering from the shadows. And I'm not doing this for anyone but me. Slavery is defined as forced labor. My money is my labor and I am entitled to the fruits of that labor, and to purchase with it what I choose. I'm having a real problem with one of my service providers lately. They keep charging me but refuse to provide the service they agreed to. They were supposed to maintain the infrastructure, defend the borders, secure the elections, etc. I'm receiving NOTHING from them except what my father and grandfather already paid for in full decades before. In fact, they are using what I give them to go against my interests. I've chosen to terminate the contract. Just a simple business decision. Except I find that I can't. They come around and say "it'd be a real shame if you ended up in jail, you sure you don't want to pay your bill?" To which I say "bill for what?". Forcing me to work for them is the very definition of slavery. No mental gymnastics, just a simple statement of fact. I'll continue using what my dad died for (thanks pop!) But I think this business arrangement is concluded. If they must shoot me, let the fucker that does it buy his own bullets.

captainstrange ago

This sounds like an excellent pitch Dr.