Love when the US gov says investing in their own country’s healthcare or transportation will make taxes too expensive. Better to invest their workers’ pay in some other country’s weapons stash.
Tumblr probably isn’t the place for this, this seems like a Reddit kind of question, but
We know that the international court has an ongoing legal case against the US government’s involvement in genocide.
Are there any current or developing legal cases *within* the US? So that US citizens can bring their own charges against the government directly?
There are weird legal arguments about presidential immunity right now
and impeachment depends on the cooperation of the government.
So maybe we should be attacking this from a different angle.
Biden bypassed Congress to send weapons to a genocidal foreign regime.
I argue that this is effectively “taxation without representation” in addition to the obvious violations of Constitutional and essential human rights.
I believe that there is precedent and legal basis here for US citizens to protest by withholding payment of this year’s federal taxes.
( in the absence of a fair and unbiased court, this would require either a *very* skilled legal defense team, or for it to be a *very* large coordinated effort. The IRS will seize your personal property if your legal defense fails.)
Ideally, we could push for a major overhaul of the tax and federal budget system in general.
The entire damn point of taxes! Is to improve the well-being of the public!
It’s supposed to be a pool of community resources where everyone chips in so that we can all have nice things!
It’s not supposed to be a price for being alive
It’s not supposed to be the president’s personal piggybank
Libertarian here. Nobody should work till they die (when will you spend it?) and your taxes should go to things that you believe in (whatever that is.).
PSA for my US mutuals: The Inflation Reduction act has raised the standard deduction for couples filing jointly. Essentially that means you amount of taxable income will be smaller, and so shall you possible return. Brought to you by a frustrated taxpayer that just filed.
Ok but for US taxpayers is there a way we can just—- not pay our taxes.
Because the governments using them, among the other myriad of losses and screwing around , towards Israel. If our tax money is a) funding a genocide and b) not being used to improve the physical conditions of the people here why should we be paying them at all