Courtesy of Mish.
There’s fake news. There’s also non-news. Then there is idiotic advice that borders on being illegal (if not outright illegal).
Time Magazine is a sponsor of the latter.
In an opinion piece on Time Magazine, writer Mark Weston, author of The Runner-Up Presidency, says 65 Million Americans Should Threaten to Not Pay Taxes.
Quite frankly, that is pure bullsh*t. Time Magazine knows it, yet willingly promotes it under the guise of “ideas”.
Here are a few snips, before I blast Time Magazine and the author.
Until democracy is restored
The approximately 65 million Democrats who voted for Hillary Clinton should pledge that in the future if a Republican wins the presidency with fewer votes than a Democrat for the third time in our era, we won’t pay taxes to the federal government. No taxation without representation!
Is signing a pledge to not pay taxes legal? Yes, if no overt act of conspiracy is involved, and the pledge itself is hypothetical. No one knows when or if it would be carried out.
How would the pledge work? First, an online group such as MoveOn.org, Change.org or both, should circulate a petition. The pledge is not just a powerful protest; it is also effortless, requiring no legal or financial sacrifice at all for years, possibly decades.
Second, the pledge should only apply to federal taxes. We would still pay state, local, sales and property taxes. This is a protest against our 229-year-old system of electoral votes, not against taxation in general.
Third, if a Republican wins the election without winning the popular vote again, we should still pay what we owe in federal taxes—just not to the IRS. Instead, people would compute their federal taxes, file a Form 1040 and write a check to a national escrow account, preferably in a well-established Canadian or British bank that is beyond the reach of the U.S. Justice Department, because whoever opens this account probably will be in violation of U.S. law. In the check’s memo line, people should write, “Funds to be transferred to the IRS as soon as America resumes being a democracy.”
Filing Pledge Not Illegal
Filing a pledge to not pay taxes may not be illegal, but not paying taxes is illegal.
Political Charlatan, Mark Weston, like Peter Schiff’s father, promotes things that will get you in trouble. Weston proposes a roundabout way to not pay taxes by paying them. Undoubtedly, many fools will not understand what he is saying, and decide to not pay taxes.
