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To: Myrddin

Exactly, it’s all about consequences.

When Rome was a Republic, every landowner had to support the legions. They had to fight, be taxed, they had not just skin, but buttocks on the line.

After the Empire, other people did the fighting. People got rich, fat, lazy, and no longer had buttocks on the line. Finally, the foreign fighters came back to Rome.......

Responsible representative government starts with responsibility; No Taxation with Representation, and No Representation without Taxation.


14 posted on 04/19/2023 12:20:53 PM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: Pete Dovgan
My employer sucked up to the states and requires me to put my zip code on the work items and hours. The consequence is that I'm required to file income taxes for any state where I work more than 3 days in a year. I eschew travel for that reason. Often, the cost of TurboTax state and electronic filing for the state exceeds the taxes that were collected. It's a paperwork nosebleed. In cases where I spent more significant time, I paid a ton of taxes to a state where I am not a resident. Taxation without representation. In fairness, when I was a resident of CA and paying taxes, it was still taxation without representation.
16 posted on 04/19/2023 6:38:03 PM PDT by Myrddin
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