Starve The Beast (A FR Actvism Thread to Combat the Rape of the American Taxpayer)

my derranged cerebrum | Feb. 15th 2009 | Mad Dawgg

[Mad Dawgg]

This Thread is to bring together Freepers to institute a legal way to Starve the US government of our Tax Dollars. Please add any and all suggestions to this thread for legal ways to STARVE THE BEAST!

Spread the Word to your Non-Freeper Friends. Show people how to keep more of their hard earned money and get more back from Uncle Obama.

OK so here goes:

So you feel like its all hopeless. You feel the inmates are in charge of the asylum.

Yeah its bad BUT there is something we can all do. AND it benefits yourself WHILE putting it to the looters in Washington.

First understand that the engine that drives Liberalism/ Socialism is taxpayer money. Without it they can't do all the crap they wish to.

So the first thing to do is strangle the dollars going to Washington on a weekly basis.

How you ask? Its simple really. Contact your employer and change your withholding on your W-2 Forms. Claim more dependents. This takes less out of your paycheck to send to Washington. (I suggest you claim one or two more than you actually have.)

Take that extra money per pay period and put it in a local bank in a Savings or Money Market account.

If at Tax Time you then owe some back you have it in your savings and you have made money on it rather than giving Uncle Sam a tax free loan on your money.

The next thing you can do is turn a hobby or interest into a legal side business and use it for more tax deductions. (Contact your accountant on the particulars on how to legally do such)

One of the benefits of turning a hobby into a side business is you can take a holiday vacation and legally turn most of it into a tax deduction.

[Kowdawg]

Not to be a naysayer...but.

Congress and Obama just spent 2 Trillion dollars we don't have without raising taxes. They can print more money in the short-term. They have no intention of paying off the debt in the long term.

Do you really think an Authoritarian regime has not considered and planned for dealing with tax avoidance? You can't starve the beast by denying it something it doesn't need. You just make yourself a target.

[Mad Dawgg]

"Not to be a naysayer...but."

The beauty of such a movment is that if YOU wish not to participate YOU don't have to.

Good luck.

[elpinta]

You actually have a point, and that should worry us, I think.

[cgk]

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