Pass if on if you like it or just call me a trouble maker.
Outside of Bush's trillion of dollars tab for his wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that the American tax payers have been given the tab to pay, just within the past few months we have been given two additional tabs to pay as well, the $85 billion government bailout of AIG and the recent $850 billion dollar bailout for Wall Street. In spite of what the national media says, and they keep saying $700 billion, legitimate, non-propaganda news media and those non-corrupt politicians will honestly tell you that the Senate tacked on another $150 billion in what amounts to bribe or vote buying money for those who did not vote for the legislation prior to the final vote.
This amounts to a tab of $935 billion dollars. I don't know about you but I don't even know what a $1 billion would look like in cash. That $85 billion for AIG was to an insurance company and most of us working class Americans can't even afford to have medical insurance.
So my husband and I got real angry. My husband decided to call in today and adjust his monthly pension check so that they do not take out any taxes. This is legal and it is called withholding taxes and paying them at the end of the fiscal year. Anyone can do it legally. All we are doing is withholding the money and paying it at the end of the fiscal year as a form of protest. Our own little protest.
Now get this. There is, at this writing, a U.S. population of 305,347,574 American citizens. Granted not all of them pay taxes. However, most do. And if just 1 milllion Americans withheld their income tax until the end of the year the amount of tax money flowing into the government cannot even be figured out on my calculator. It's legal too because you will be paying at the end of the year but in the meantime think of how that messes up the governments monthly cash flow. LOL Mostly though, with millions of Americans do this they will easily recognize it as a legal protest to the bailouts of the wealthy and banks. Mostly with me it a protest against Socialism for the Wealthy. I kind of liked growing up and living in a democracy at a time when there actually was freedom. That was before the aristocracy we have today.
We have already done this. It's our own little protest and I hope that many others join us. We will hold onto to the money and pay our taxes at the end of the year like the good citizens we have always been in a country that only cares about the wealthy 1% running it.
Hey I really hope that you guys might join mine and Butch's legal protest. I just love the idea of messing up the government's cash flow. After all, we don't get any of the money for our needs. We just shell it out for the wealthy and the corrupt.
Love Connie
P.S. Just wanted to add that when they passed that bailout act we crossed the line as a nation from a Democracy into Socialism. Only in this case, it is Socialism for the Rich.
Bravo! I've been hoping that more people would realize that in order to TRULY force CHANGE..we have to take the power out of the hands of the people who are screwing things up, and put it back in the hands of the people who are being screwed.
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