• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Californian here.

    We should stop paying federal taxes.

    We have a ton of money, a ton of military installations, and 1 in 8 Americans IS a Californian. Washington and Oregon join us, and we’d be in even better shape. Canada can get in on the action too.

    A felon rapist traitor and his traitor party is making our Constitution irrelevant. Time to start looking out for ourselves.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      WA state here - it’s ridiculous that I have to subsidize chuds in Mississippi and Louisiana when they won’t even give their citizens human rights. they’re all about fiscal responsibility until it comes to paying their own fucking bills.

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        3 hours ago

        Federal taxes don’t actually work that way. The federal government prints its own money. All taxes effectively go into a giant shredder and are unrelated to spending.

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          3 hours ago

          I don’t even know where to begin correcting such an insane statement. Why do you think k taxes are collected if it just gets shredded? Sadistic pleasure?

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            2 hours ago

            He makes a good point, it’s just to balance the inflation. Take the tax money to offset the federal reserve printing swathes of money to fund government endeavors.

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            It’s a real theory. From what I understand though the shredder is a thought experiment, not meant to be taken seriously. They do acknowledge that you have to receive money to spend money. they just think of it like a balancing act instead of a 1 to 1 relationship.

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              2 hours ago

              You don’t need to receive money to spend money if you print money. The purpose of taxation is to reduce the monetary supply.

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      3 hours ago

      If we are going to do a tax protest we will need some kind of guarantees from the state government. Otherwise going to war with the IRS will not work. The IRS always wins.

    • Zombie-Mantis@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      I’m not sure that’s feasible, since the states don’t just sign a check to the Feds once a year, it’s paid via payroll taxes. To my knowledge, there is no kind of mechanism for entire states to collectively refuse payment.