The Trump Derangement Syndrome continues to claim sufferers as Time Mag publishes a rant that even DailyKos would have turned its nose up at. Remember when tax refusal was the province of the "right"? Now one man wants to bring it back to the left.
65 Million Americans Should Threaten to Not Pay Taxes... Until democracy is restored
The approximately 65 million Democrats who voted for Hillary Clinton should pledge that in the future if a Republican wins the presidency with fewer votes than a Democrat for the third time in our era, we won’t pay taxes to the federal government. No taxation without representation!
Great plan. Instead of sending them all to jail, we could just build walls around San Francisco, Seattle and New York.
Is signing a pledge to not pay taxes legal? Yes, if no overt act of conspiracy is involved, and the pledge itself is hypothetical. No one knows when or if it would be carried out.
So it's just like Obama's red line for Syria.
If the Republicans won’t help amend the Constitution so that America can resume being a democracy, then Democrats, lacking the representation that supporters of a future popular vote-winner ought to have in the executive branch, should not submit to paying taxes to the federal government.
Yes please. Republicans can start by defunding the EPA, the NEA, the Department of Education and the UN. Not to mention a million other big government programs that progressives love.
How would the pledge work? First, an online group such as MoveOn.org, Change.org or both, should circulate a petition. The pledge is not just a powerful protest; it is also effortless, requiring no legal or financial sacrifice at all for years, possibly decades.
Or you know... ever.
Third, if a Republican wins the election without winning the popular vote again, we should still pay what we owe in federal taxes—just not to the IRS. Instead, people would compute their federal taxes, file a Form 1040 and write a check to a national escrow account, preferably in a well-established Canadian or British bank that is beyond the reach of the U.S. Justice Department, because whoever opens this account probably will be in violation of U.S. law. In the check’s memo line, people should write, “Funds to be transferred to the IRS as soon as America resumes being a democracy.”
I had forgotten how badly the left lost its mind under Bush. This is a nice reminder.
The beauty of a no-taxation pledge is that it almost certainly won’t have to be carried out. The mere threat could be enough to propel a Constitutional amendment.
Hey guys. Who's ready to abandon the Electoral College over this mere threat? Show of hands.