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. Hell 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 Trumps 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 ...
Talk about juvenile thinking, is this person 2 years old???
What a bunch of crap...course ‘fake news’ or some other type of reporting is seen quite often now because they have nothing to report on, they are so un important anymore, they look like the dead and their reporting is just as bad...
Grow up, get a job, take a bath, or get the hell out of our country!!!
Charge them with felonies and then they can’t vote (legally anyway) anymore. A double win!
Less money for the government juggernaut.
We’ve been witnessing this attitude for a long time. They’re bucking for the great divide of once great USA. There might be a separation of people who think free (insert programs and products here) is more important than national security. This may very well result in the dissolution of our country.
vs.
Business owners who pay anywhere from $10K - over $100K a year Medical professionals - wide range depending on profession but I'm sure it's just about the same as business owners with a lower starting amoun for taxes Business pofessionals - bank / loan officers, real estate agents, investmeng specialists, consultants, etc...Who may pay even more than the above. I know a real estate agent that does
So I don't think we'll be missing your tax $$$ because you are known for paying less than you fair share and cheating the system anyway.
They are just running their frigging mouths. They will file and pay the taxes due. You can count on that. IRS gots to have its money.
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Business owners who pay anywhere from $10K - over $100K a year Medical professionals - wide range depending on profession but I'm sure it's just about the same as business owners with a lower starting amoun for taxes Business pofessionals - bank / loan officers, real estate agents, investmeng specialists, consultants, etc...Who may pay even more than the above. I know a real estate agent that does
So I don't think we'll be missing your tax $$$ because you are known for paying less than your faoir share and cheating the system anyway.
Illegals go home and libs go to jail for not paying their taxes.
Love it.
Under Obama they wanted us to pay more. Now this.....
Great idea. I’m sure it will catch on.
Excellent thought.
Well, Obama pardoned a lot of people in his final days. Lots of prison cells are open.
Great! This moron with get to pay a whole lot more than he bargained for. If he hates Trump wait till he sees how the IRS operates.
I sure didn’t want to pay taxes under Obama, knowing what he was spending it on.
You would probably be better off spending the money on charities that you know are helping people that really need it.
The extra fines and penalties will be a special tax on petulant
Winning!
The mob breaks your legs and kills family members. The IRS is tougher than that.
Professors are the stupidest people in the country.
We will not pay: the Americans withholding their taxes to fight Trump
Keep Gitmo. By the way isn’t Newman the character from Mad Comics?
If you CAN’T pay your taxes, the IRS will not be happy.... but you can work it out.
If you make yourself the poster boy for NOT paying taxes, one morning you will find your house, car, bank account, retirement account, boat and even your favorite beer stein left over from a college kegger all have big orange seizure stickers on them or they are on the end of a wrecker’s hook.
When a gardener trims the top of a hedge, it’s only the branches sticking out that get cut off.
BTW, over the years, the people selling their “I Can Teach You How To Never Pay Taxes Again” programs, despite what they told the public, always filed very conservative returns, on time, because they knew they would be targets.
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