It might stain the carpeting if drinking while doing step-arobics, but we have dark carpeting in that room. :)
Posted on 12/20/2009 6:38:29 PM PST by kozanne
My Fellow Americans,
When King George III of The British Empire had concluded his French and Indian war in 1763 he lacked to funds to pay for the costly event. His answer was to impose tax after tax on the colonies of America. He started confiscating their monies by taxing every activity of life and creating government subsidized monopolies on everything from courier services to tea. The King wanted to control every aspect of American life and bring as much money into the government coffers as possible.
We are, as I write this post, a mere six hours away from the United States Senate will vote on Cloture that begins a water fall effect to bring about government run health care by Christmas day. A move that will put the government literally in the business of valuing life, deciding how much you should weigh, and forcing you to pay for health care in order to be a citizen in good standing.
This is not the first, and certainly will not be the last power grab of this congress or presidential administration. They have consistently over reached their constitutional authority and shrugged their collective shoulders when called on it. Those of us that have written letters, emailed, called, marched, picketed and questioned in town hall meetings what authority our federal government was using have been laughed at and mocked. We have been ignored.
When President Bush forced through a mammoth bank bailout for some of the most powerful institutions on the planet We The People objected that we did not have the authority or the resources to do so, but no one listened. When President Obama pushed through the government takeover of those institutions and several others We The People said no, and the liberal Lame Stream Media mocked us. These events led to CNBC correspondent Rick Santelli calling for a TEA Party from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The TEA Party movement was born on February 27, 2009.
Over the last year we have done everything we can to get the attention on the Washington DC Proletariat that thinks they can rule over us and thumb their nose at the founding fathers and our founding documents. They are not listening. They have continued to spend and encroach on our rights and freedoms by passing EPA regulations calling our very breathe a dangerous threat to the world, spending without regard to the hazards, driving our dollar below that of third world countries and now taking over one sixth of the economy and forcing all of us into taxation slavery.
My friends it is time for all of us to stand together, to unite the movement and make a stand that shows those in Washington that we will not forfeit our freedoms to become slaves in a Socialist social experiment that We The People do not want. This is why we are calling the National Day of Strike action for January 20, 2010, the one year anniversary of the inauguration of Barack Obama. We The People are the engine of the American economy. We are the genius of the American way of life. We are the host of the parasites in Congress that provide the life blood of tax revenue for an irresponsible and unresponsive organism that only seeks it's own growth and well being.
The National Day of Strike-We The People Strike Back is an act of civil disobedience that is necessary to show our out of control government that we are serious about reigning in their un-constitutional confiscation of our finances, our freedoms and our rights. On January 20, 2010 We The People will strike at the life blood of that parasitic congress by denying them the tax revenue for one day. We will not work. We will not shop, or buy anything that is taxed. We will not renew any licenses, tags, file any government filings and we will not remain silent. On This day we will fire a shot across the bow of Congress that we rule them not the other way around.
These are times that try men's souls my friends. I have not in my life time seen a more hell bent move to take our great nation to the extreme left. We are lurching toward Marxism and Socialism and we are being led there by the very people who swore to uphold the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic, yet they are the enemies. We cannot sit idly by and allow what so many generations of warriors and patriots have sacrificed their lives to defend.
Please help us grow this event across organizational, party or geographical lines. Now is the time for us to all stand together. We need leaders and organizers in every state of the union. More details will be coming out this week. UNITE THE RIGHT TO WIN THE FIGHT. For Freedom, Allen Hardage National Operations Director
We unite and not pay our taxes to the federal government, but put them in a Nationwide Tax Escrow Account.
Now that is what I would call a STRIKE!
Anyone out there savvy enough to put together such a set-up on a nationwide basis?
Ping!
Who do you think we are, the French?
This is as silly as the idea that pops up every time gasoline prices increase suddenly - let’s not buy gasoline for one day.
So people buy gas the following day, or later in the week, whatever.
Well, this idea would work in a similar way.
The math doesn’t add up to make this viable. Let’s say we have 20m workers take the day off.
IF they didn’t use vacation days, and we assume an average yearly gross of $35k, that comes out to $140 x 20m = $2.8b in gross income.
With FICA and medicare (plus matching) and a marginal rate of 10%, that puts us at roughly 25% effective tax rate.
$2.8b x 25% = $700m
That is literally not real money to these grifters. Even if you double the number of workers, it’s only $1.4b.
I submit to you that the feds can outlast most of us for living without our money. Even 1 month off for those 20m folks is only $14b lost by the feds. How many people can live without income or federal assistance for a whole month?
Now, clearly that does not take into account the trickle down of $2.1b (1 days worth of take home) staying out of the economy. But the reality is that 20m people won’t do this. If they do, most will use a vacation day and that defeats the purpose entirely.
There are only a couple of ways to really accomplish this goal of starving the feds. The first is for most taxpayers to stop paying into the IRS and not file a tax return. It would crush the gov’t. Most people will not take that chance. I wouldn’t. All my assets are available for the taking from the feds.
The second and most effective way to accomplish it is for the top 5% of taxpayers to stop all economic activity. They pay 50% of the yearly “income” into the federal gov’t. This assumes they are wealthy and not just high income, which is not true.
Haven’t spilled a drop. :)
It might stain the carpeting if drinking while doing step-arobics, but we have dark carpeting in that room. :)
Nice dogs.
The only people who can shut down our country by going on strike are the truck drivers and the airlines and neither of them are going to do it. The rest of the people can’t make a dent in the working of the country. Enough people are going to have to go to D.C. and make enough “stink” to get their attention. Nice nice is not going to get it. Think the streets of Iran. It will have to continue for more than one day.
How about if everyone filed an extension as many times as possible, then make them start proceeding against you and then stall until the last minute before paying the whole tax. That could really overburden the system couldn't it?
So yes, I have been working to stop the destruction of America. Working far more alone than one would think from the noise on FR.
I thoroughly agree. But you know what? I don't ever see them doing anything but going to rallies. Over two decades of volunteering for political campaigns and I have yet to meet a FReeper. Almost nobody among the volunteers (pretty much all the same folks, year in and year out) even knows of the site.
It's NOT a tool. People will spend whatever they would have spent on the 20th on the 19th or the 21st or some other day. The government will not lose any tax revenues. Well intentioned but a meaningless waste of time and energy.
I suggest we keep buying ammo.
BLOAT!
However, it's just one of many things that should be employed. We should also be blockading all goods in/out of DC, showing up on our pols front yards, etc. Though I'm not convinced peope are ready to be arrested. That's what it will take.
Calling, faxing and emailing are legitimate tactics which are effective. As evidence - not one Republican Senator voted for this garbage. A one-day spending boycott is a joke and is not even a tactic. It’s a worthless waste of time.
What were some of the tactics the hippies used when protesting the Viet Nam War? I remember sit-ins (designed to halt traffic on sidewalks and streets), people chaining themselves to various things like doors (which would prevent people going in and out), flag-pole sitting, hunger strikes, anything weird and bizarre to get media attention and get their message out. Think about a bunch of people chaining themselves to the doors of the Senate building or doing a lie-in on the Capitol steps. Even the State Controlled Media would have to notice because it would be so wild.
On a related note, the 2010 March for Life is in DC on January 21 & 22.
once again I’ve been saying the exact same thing for almost a year now. We need to use the VERY successful methods of the LEFT against them. It works !
A couple of relevant links (reminder links if you will):
How to Communicate Securely in Repressive Environments
http://tinyurl.com/nruq9j
Alarm and Muster
http://alarmandmuster.com/
:-)
Ah - I wasn’t talking about a spending boycott for a day.
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