No Stupid Questions

Yes, but also always has been. Times have been bad before and it wasn't ideal a few years ago either. Keep your head low and push in the right direction, like many good people have done before us.

For being a low-key menace. https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf

You are not alone. You have the ability to make positive change. If you would wish to have a larger impact, organize, find strength with those in your community and it will grow.

You are giving false equivalency arguments. You are equating Musk's abilities to some direct link in your taxes, as though the 25% you pay each paycheck is funding him. It isn't. It is still funding garbage collection, national parks, welfare programs, and other critical infrastructure. Your taxes haven't started going to new places. They are doing the exact same thing they have always done. You are being reactionary, and it comes off like you are either 15 years old and just learning about taxation, or 55 and learning about Libertarianism. Get a grip on yourself, realise that there is still work to be done, and being an infant about this shit isn't doing anything but wasting people's fucking time. If you don't want to pay taxes, don't. But don't lie and say it's about Musk. It's selfishness. It's because you can't manage what money you have, and you think that little bit extra is going to make a difference. It won't, though. You'll still be broke because you spent all your money on weed and black light posters.

You're definitely not the only person proposing your course of action. By the way, it would be silly for me to refrain from filing taxes since I'm likely to get a small refund. From your own reasoning, why would I want the government to keep my money even longer interest free? In that case, I absolutely should file my taxes to take the money away from them.

ETA: As far as paying taxes in your paycheck, just talk to your employer and change your W-4 to the lowest payout. Your employer is required to withhold some of it for taxes, so talk to your employer if you want to pay absolutely zero on payday (and they will likely say no). Obviously that all varies depending on your employment arrangement, but it generally holds up.

Because of everyone does the thing with all the might necessary to do it themselves, then together they will do the biggest thing that's ever been done.

When you get all 350 million people to riot I'll be on your side. But laying low is a more likely to succeed option. This country has never been fair or politically good. I prepared for this, because I could see it coming.

I literally pay taxes, that's paying the thugs not to rob you. It works well in Japan too, their thugs will defend your shop.

Why aren’t burly men coming for musk?

He has the support of the people with a monopoly on violence.

How can my neighbor sit by and let it happen to me

The fact that your neighbor can't do anything is what makes it a monopoly.

Because he’s paid for them.

You get a check? Like, those paper payments?

I haven't found one bank or establishment that'll cash any of my former employer's checks in over a decade. They tell me the companies I worked for aren't registered as trusted employers/check issuers.

My past employers all had to cash their own damn checks and hand me cash money. And that's largely why I quit repairing computers, tablets and phones back in 2017, apparently all the tech companies here are shady, to the point even their own banks don't trust them.

Wish I knew what it was like to have an honest employer..

Edit: I was even denied direct deposit from my own bank. Why? Shit, even the bank manager didn't know. So I closed my bank account and have been on paper cash money for about a decade. I have no reason to trust banks that won't even let money be deposited into my account.