If there was a way to withhold my tax dollars to the federal government and only pay state taxes without getting trouble with the IRS, I would do it in a heartbeat. I'm already fucking disgusted that my tax dollars likely helped fund worse things like "Alligator Alcatraz."
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There is a way: emigrate and give up your citizenship. That's what I did when Dubya started the fascist shitshow after 9/11. I didn't want any of my hard-earned funneled into torturing innocent people in Gitmo or funding the DHS Gestapo. So I left. I'm glad I did.
I think I would have a harder time because they want people still pay taxes when they live overseas, and would reject me just because I don't want my taxes to go to bad things.
they want people still pay taxes when they live overseas
That's why you have to give up your citizenship. The US is one of few countries in the world that run this scam of demanding taxes be paid by people who live abroad.
FYI. Harder to do that now than ever. Good job getting out when you did. But it's not like Americans have good options. Most don't have enough to pay rent let alone emigrate.
Yeah it's not for everybody: you have to have the means, have the guts to make the jump and not hold any hope for America. Most people lack at least one of those necessary criteria. But if you can do it, it's a good option: life is much better outside the USA. Trust me on that one.
Oh I agree. I'm a citizen. But traveled a lot for work between 2005 - 2015. The second you experience what Healthcare is like outside the US it radicalizes you. And that's if the thousands of other tiny and much better experiences don't enlighten you to how backwards the US is. Tipping alone is so unnecessary.
Also, those 3 criteria are solid. Certainly my experience as well. The only difference being my personal optics. (In that I'm waiting to see what gets built on the ashes of Trump before leaving) So I guess I have molecules of hope? Eitherway, you have solid advice!
He's gonna pardon Diddy and make him the official "Minister of Baby-Oil" and put him in charge of running the "ballroom"
The Jeffery Epstein Memorial Ballroom.
I'm willing to bet he's just gonna give 200 million to an associated construction company, take back like half for himself and we'll never hear about it again.
That it's a distraction from the Epstein list and that the sitting president rapes women and children alike?
Im so fucking sick of this. Why are you so easily distracted. Grow the fuck up and learn to pay attention to more than one thing at a time.
Fuck off pedo
Also, he's spending at least 1 billion of our tax dollars on his bribe plane.
That they are "donating to his presidential library" afterwards... Because... reasons...
Man, I sure hope his library is large enough to land a Boeing in it. Maybe he should get an airport for it for free as well.
Don't worry, I am sure Ted Cruz and John Cornyn thought through the logistics just like they did when saying they were going to steal the space shuttle from the Smithsonian.
And the stolen election: https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/ex-cia-whistleblower-the-nsa-audited
+1...Does not surprise me and thanks for the link.
is expected to be completed "long before the end of President Trump’s term," the White House said Thursday.
Because he will never leave willingly.
The grim reaper will get him eventually, Like Chaplin said, as long as men die, liberty will never perish.
I'm utterly embarrassed to be a US citizen. What a shitty fucking country we live in.
I am embarrassed FOR you! Yeesh. I hope the revolution happens eventually and that it is swift… It will do the whole world good.
Until then I’ll remain high so I don’t have to be sober (and in a lot of pain) in this shit hole
Hit the streets this summer and protest this shit... aaaaand its over.
Will the ballroom be full of underaged girls?
The dude who is covering the whitehouse in gold is the same dude bitching about the price of the fed building.
Don't care. Release the Epstein files.
Hope everyone remembers this and his "free" billion dollar sky palace when they are struggling to pay for groceries and get healthcare because of all his cuts.
... he wants a palace ...
And who has palaces? Only two kinds of people have them these days....
Well well, look who's making himself a kings court. Wonder if Count Epstein will be attending