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Considering that we get neither reliable infrastructure nor protection from violence nor secure borders, I'd say that kid has given the most accurate answer possible.

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we are coerced into complying by a top down mafia of American (globalist?) oligarchs (thanks Davos!)

print the fiat--> inflate the assets--> blame proprietors for "gouging"--> raise taxes

..all while ignoring the direct mathematical relationship between taxed thing goes up more taxes collected....

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"Why do you pay property taxes?"

So the king doesn't confiscate your home which you don't really own despite having paid for it in full.

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Funny thing. In the long-ago, when I was still a Noo Yawkuh and working full-time and paying federal, state and local taxes, and despite a pretty modest lifestyle was living pretty much paycheck-to-paycheck (not entirely my fault but that's another story), I felt at least I was doing my part, helping to provide services and assistance to those in real need, so it was all worth it, wasn't it?

Nah, it wasn't. It was thievery of the highest order and I'd have done better living in the shadow of the Sheriff of Nottingham, really. But I needed to learn that by living overseas, where I got to know people who were actually poor, and that they were all individuals and not a sub-species of human, and giving people stuff for free makes them not value it in the least, because otherwise why would you just hand it out to anyone?

Man, school never ends. That's horrible fate if anything is...

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As a CPA, I've always said "my job is to keep you out of jail for not paying taxes." Given that if the taxpayer goes to jail and I helped him, I'd likely go too, this was a very important goal for me. Never pay a tax you don't owe, but never NOT pay the taxes you DO owe (as defined by the IRS).

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Clearly this was a worksheet for low to mid-range earners. High earners don't get arrested if they don't pay taxes.

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And if you think about it, why do we have to pay taxes if the government can print up however much money it needs. It just printed up $40 billion for Ukraine. So, paying taxes has NOTHING to do with funding the DC shithole and everything to do with social re-engineering.

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Pity. But that kid is right.

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Just theft at the point of a gun. It's a sickness to pretend its anything else.

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Someone has to fund the government's "corruption coin" currency.

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May 27, 2022·edited May 27, 2022

(From the UK) if I was the CEO of one of the energy companies just hit by a windfall tax I would just refuse to pay it. Unless it is in a governments manifesto then it shouldn’t come to light. If I was running a company and a campaign promised more tax on profits of said business I would move operations to the least tax offensive place.

As it happens, I am working on a book of radical policy in the UK which centre around reducing the govt expense to 10% of GDP and the tax burden to around 15% in total per head.

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Here in the UK, our idiotic government has just decided to tax the energy companies a load. Thus proving that the government are a bunch of idiots.

Prices are high because there is not enough supply to meet demand.

If you tax something, you get less of it (increased cost).

so what they've gone and done is to tax supply even more...

What they should actually be doing is lowering the taxes and encouraging more drilling and fracking, which would increase supply and lower prices.

(And also end the sanctions on Russia which aren't doing anything to hurt Russia as India and China are just buying their oil, but only hurt our people with higher prices. Great.)

Sometimes I wonder how these muppets get to be in charge...

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Personally I think we need a massive tax strike.

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Silly child, very few people go to jail for not paying taxes. Generally you get a series of threatening letters over a period of 90 days that might not get to your house, then a lien is placed against you and then the taxing authority garnishes your wages or seizes all the funds in your bank account. Wage garnishment is in place until you pay in full, and bank garnishments can be done regularly until either the taxes are paid in full or you become "unbanked"

The taxing authority can seize any stocks, bonds, or debts owed to you as well, and though it is possible to seize safety deposit boxes and cars, generally it is not considered worth the struggle except to frighten other potential debtors

Taxation is an exercise is state-terror perpetuated on the citizens of its own country, but on the whole, only high profile people like John McAfee go to jail. Though not, I suppose, for very long.

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Poor soul who wrote that honest answer. Will likely die in a gulag.

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When did I sign up and agree to support the Government financially?

Asking for that guy over there..

Lemme know.

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