That is horrible.
Why do you live in the United States?
If you own property, then you pay taxes. If you purchase goods or services, then you pay taxes. If you buy food or go out to eat, you pay taxes. If you buy electricity, gas, water, or trash services, you pay taxes. If you rent an apartment, part of your rent is going to taxes. If you own and drive a car, you pay taxes. If you purchase gas to fill your vehicle, you pay taxes. You likely paid taxes on the Android device that you used to post this blog. Hell..., the internet service provider/mobile provider that you are using to write this post is charging you taxes.
Really, you should pay the last tax ever and buy a plane ticket out of the United States and be done with it.
@socky
That big part of the monetary world we live at. People even don`t realize that you said here!
They accept that for normal every thing has to be taxed.
For example-state MA
You Work for $100 day a day,
You pay 33 % on your paycheck!
And I can keep going but I will leave it for another post.
Yeah. This.
Good for you that you dont “pay taxes” , but sadly I doubt you are nearly as successful as you think in avoiding them (if you live in country).
I know I can not avoid all taxes ... but I am doing the best I can.
In reference to @socky ... I am US citizen ... something most people can not say.
With the amount of influence the US has ... I feel an obligation to every living thing on earth to do my best to make this country great again ... and stop it from furthering anthroprogenic climate change.
ha... I don't understand your sentiment but I will try. While it is rather challenging to avoid paying sales tax ... income tax is one thing I can avoid to pay.
The reason I choose not to is, in my opinion, it is the only power I have left to influence our government.
I live in Georgia where recently, a man who was Secretary of State became governor. While he was running for governor he had 100% control over his own election! The sad fact is that our government is highly corrupt, just like others, and "voting" doesn't really mean what it used to.
I vote with my dollar bill and the US will get as few of mine as possible until they change.
Yourself and other and money from taxes could help this corrupt situation i think.
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The problem here is, though the sentiment is that it is the only power you have left (though, is that to say you did, at one point, ever have such power?) the reality is your symbolic gesture is literally just that, nothing more: Symbolic.
At the end of the day, you're just saving money. Your lack of contribution does literally nothing to affect anything whatsoever. If you used your position to create a movement of a million non-taxpayers and raise awareness to your issues in question outside of a Steem post, maybe it's worth pointing out, but short of that, it just seems little more than a way to avoid doing something you don't wanna do.
=)
I disagree completely. My lack of giving money to the govt has a concrete effect. Not only are they literally receiving a fixed amount less, i am also making, in my opinion, a strong political statement which also has a legitimate effect. Even if I was completely powerless, to believe that I was would offer no benefit
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It reminds me of Those who refuse to give up their guns because they need to protect people from the government going rogue. Every citizen in the US having their own garage full of weaponry would do basically nothing to the US government if they really wanted to take control. The only net result would be those citizens being dead.
I guess it depends on who you are making the statement to. If you are focussed on keeping it local, sure. Tell your friends and family you don't pay tax. But don't expect anyone beyond that to even flinch, unless you're a muti-billion dollars industry and I'm not aware of it.
The US collects about $3 trillion in tax per year, for perspective. $3,000,000,000,000