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. 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
This will end well for them.
Hey Putz, the IRS is NOT your friend!
Hahaha... Good luck with that.
Cue the popcorn.
IRS will be cleaned out and they will go to jail. Good luck with that.
Fine. Charge them with felony tax evasion and make sure they can never vote again. No representation without taxation.
Hey! I thought they were all moving to Canada! What’s up with this?
Already posted here earlier under another jipped media venue. The guy and others are still idiots. They are welcomed to go toe-to-toe with the IRS and see who wins.
They really are so stupid it’s pitiful. They don’t even know the best way to cripple the tax intake.
Hey, more money for the US when they get hit with penalty and interest
I guess we’ll just have to cut the funding to NPR then. And then arrest them.
So Al Sharpton was just protesting against 0bama by NOT paying HIS taxes?
*SNORT*
This is going to be good.
Suddenly, FReepers become massive fans of the IRS.
Howabout some more creative thinking, and trying to figure out how to leverage this phenomenon into the abolition of the federal income tax?
It is generally not a good idea to not pay the IRS if your reason is a protest against government.
Put them in jail!
Put them in jail!
These losers keep coming out of the woodwork. How many more are there?
What, me worry?
Cool. Felons can’t vote. Get in line liberal fools.
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