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We will not pay: the Americans withholding their taxes to fight Trump
The Guardian ^ | Feb 15, 2017 | Joanna Walters

Posted on 02/15/2017 9:01:43 AM PST by Alissa

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.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: irs; taxes; trump
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To: Alissa

Good. They will identify themselves to the IRS and then other investigations can be done.

All of can turn this clown into the IRS for tax evasion.


81 posted on 02/15/2017 2:40:31 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Concerned trolls/NeverTrumpsters, don't know to celebrate winning as they buy into fake news!!!!)
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To: Ann Archy

Some people are just not smart enough to stay out of jail.


82 posted on 02/15/2017 2:41:55 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Alissa

How come I didn’t know about not paying Obama my taxes?


83 posted on 02/15/2017 2:42:10 PM PST by Chgogal (I will NOT submit, therefore, Jihadists hate me.)
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To: DungeonMaster
No Cat, but this will work.


84 posted on 02/15/2017 2:45:39 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Concerned trolls/NeverTrumpsters, don't know to celebrate winning as they buy into fake news!!!!)
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To: Alissa

A few computer keystrokes and the IRS drains their bank accounts which is simply part of draining the swamprats. Haha


86 posted on 02/15/2017 3:27:37 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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To: lacrew

“Newman, 48, regrets that his 2016 taxes have already been automatically taken out of his paycheck”

Then he can protest by not filing for any refunds due.


87 posted on 02/15/2017 4:42:24 PM PST by LeoTDB69
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To: Alissa

Please don’t pay your taxes! Please, please, please....


88 posted on 02/15/2017 6:29:46 PM PST by Gamecock
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To: Alissa

Sorry it doesn’t work that way.

Time to sick all those tax men Obama hired on these people.


89 posted on 02/16/2017 12:48:35 AM PST by Tzimisce
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To: Grampa Dave

Thanks, that one is much better!


90 posted on 02/16/2017 5:03:32 AM PST by DungeonMaster (Love your neighbor as you love yourself.)
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