Too bad we Americans don’t get a little representation with our taxation.
“Too bad we Americans don’t get a little representation with our taxation.”
Representation? The nature of the Jizya is that you are allowed to live as a second class citizen as long as your labors subsidize the True Faith. Representation has nothing to do with it.
re: “Too bad we Americans don’t get a little representation with our taxation.”
Exactly.
There was a line in “The Patriot” (Mel Gibson) where the main character said, “I would rather have one tyrant 3000 miles away (meaning King George III), than 300 tyrants one mile away.” Granted he was advocating against revolting against England (which he later changed his opinion on), but he had a good point about the number of tyrants closer to home (Continental Congress) doing more damage than one tyrant 3000 miles away in England.
Now we have over 535 tyrants and no representation.
If we all, or even a significant minority of us, stopped paying income taxes, what would they do? The prisons and jails are extremely overcrowded right now and the courts are backlogged years into the future. What would they do? We call ourselves “The Tea Party” but the real tea party marched right up to a ship, broke open the hold and dumped that tea in the ocean.