Posted on 02/15/2017 6:14:01 AM PST by upchuck
Got this from the Drudge Report.
Andrew Newman always pays his taxes, even if he hates what the government is doing with them. But not this year. For him, Donald Trump is the dealbreaker. He’ll pay his city and state taxes but will refuse to pay federal income tax as a cry of civil disobedience against the president and his new administration.
Newman is not alone. A nascent movement has been detected to revive the popularity of tax resistance – last seen en masse in America during the Vietnam war but which has been, sporadically, a tradition in the US and beyond going back many centuries.
"My tax money will be going towards putting up a wall on the Mexican border instead of helping sick people. It will contribute to the destruction of the environment and maybe more nuclear weapons. I think there will be a redistribution of wealth from the middle class to the wealthy elite and Trump’s campaign for the working man and woman was an absolute fraud. If you pay taxes you are implicated in the system,” said Newman, an associate professor of English and history at Stony Brook University on Long Island, part of the State University of New York.
“The government wants our money and if a lot of people were thinking about this kind of peaceful protest, it would get their attention,” he added.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Ask Wesley Snipes how that not paying taxes thing is working out for him...
There are two people you’d better pay...the Mob and Uncle Sam.
How are we going to pay for all their beloved illegals and refugees?? What about the free healthcare??
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Hissy fitah!
Ever body come on now!
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Hissy fitah!
Stompa ur feetah!
Hissy fitah!
Stompa ur feetah!
Hissy fitah!
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One more time all
Stompa ur feetah!
Hissy fitah!
come on people! Say it again!
Stompa ur feetah!
Hissy fitah!
Stompa ur feetah!
Hissy fitah!
Were’nt they the ones saying just last year that paying taxes is patriotic?
Millions of illegal aliens get away with it every day and nobody bothers them about it.
In the mid 70’s I worked for the IRS and they took a dim view of ANYONE refusing to pay taxes for political reasons. I remember seizing some leftard’s car for his refusal to pay $1.75 in federal exise tax on his phone bill because he was protesting the Vietnam war. We also went out of our way to enforce collection against “Illegal” Tax Protestors who claimed the income tax was unconstitutional. Of course, that was then and this is now, where the IRS isn’t as honest as it was then. (roll eyes).
He will pay. This is just bar room bluster.
Do I even need to comment?? How ignorant.
You signed up today to make an ambiguous statement?
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Thank you! You inspired me.
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