Cool. Hiw about a national tax exempt status followed by a general strike. Starve them out.
this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2025
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Food for thought: private income tax was levied in the US to bolster the Civil War effort against these fuckstains' ancestors (and, largely met with resistance, at the time), but then quietly forgotten to be removed again. IIRC, it was most recently given legal precedence when corporations became people. 🤔
I wonder what sort of impact it would have if everyone who's upset with Trump's lawlessness adjusted their tax withholding at work to not withhold anything. They'd have to save the money so they can pay their taxes next April to avoid legal trouble, but in the meantime, federal income could get hamstrung.
That's a tremendous amount of concerted effort that that plan would take. I don't see it happening.
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They'd just use it as an excuse to cut more programs.
Hell, according to the CBO, the current bill is guaranteed to cause an imbalance in the budget, which thanks to existing pay go rules means across the board cuts to everything, including Medicare.
This way they didn't purposely or directly fuck over Medicare. It was just an oopsie.
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General strike is still legal and more efficient than not paying taxes which will land you in jail. Withhold the means of production long enough and Trump might just fall out a window.
And quick reminder that the IWW will help anyone (including you, dear reader) unionize their job, no matter what it is, and even if you can only get one or two others on board with you!
"still legal"
Since when has that ever mattered? Remember, the first unions and labor strikes weren't legal but that didn't stop them. They didn't become legal until we forced the State to meet us on equal terms.
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Corporate tax cuts are economic growth, which helps approval ratings.
Deficits are an easy way to please everyone by offloading austerity to the future.
So every government in all of human history has borrowed from the future, and have even curated their economists to push a message that deflation is dangerous and that debt needs to be monetized.
Then for some reason debt has exploded, crypto and risk stocks are completely disconnected from reality, and the bailouts get larger and larger.
As someone who may've taken the extended family on a 20k holiday when crypto boomed pre-panda, I would certainly describe the experience as unreal.
"may've taken the extended family on a 20k holiday" So Disney for a day?
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On the other hand, austerity politics (aka "don't spend money in order to reduce the national debt") tend not to work, either, because they offload maintenance to the future. Repairing broken infrastructure costs more than keeping it from breaking in the first place.
I suppose you could just raise taxes but even with WWII-level tax ceilings it's damn expensive to run a country.
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The will just lock you up if you don't. Corporations have to be ok with saying "no".
Not gonna happen.
Because the commies and socialists will steal your guns, turn your kids gay, have state funded abortions, twerk, eat hot chips and lie if you don’t vote red.
Eating hot chips and twerking sounds like a recipe for a Pollock mud mask to the front three rows.
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Because federal thugs and hackers will garnish your wages and steal your property if you do not.
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