Blue states need to halt federal income tax witholding in protest.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    17 hours ago

    Then stop paying Federal tax, THAT is a two way street. The entire taxing without representation is, if I recall history correctly, something that hasn’t gone over too well in the US historically.

    I’d love to see the Cheetos try this with California. If California were to stop paying, it would ruin the US

    • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      The problem is that it is individuals who file taxes, and for each one of them to withhold them is a serious crimes with serious consequences. though technically civil disobedience, it is not the “block the road get detained then let go” civil disobedience.

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          10 hours ago

          That is not how the law works, it binds the poor and protects the rich. Trump literally cannot commit crimes while president because the supreme court declared him king. He is allowed to kill you with his bare hands (he is allowed to, not that he can) and rape your children and that would be 100% legal, because he is president. So withholding state funding is small potatoes for him. Did you forget the long list of crimes he is constantly committing?