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Date: Jul 28, 2007 08:00
[quote name='abaddon_fff' post='348736' date='Jul 28 2007, 06:44 AM']
For all the forum members, I would recommend that you read at
least ONE book: Henry David Thoreaus [u]Essay on Civil Disobedience[/
u]. It will CHANGE the way that you view activism, and society in
general. If your curiousity is peaked by Thoreau, then read
[u]Waldens Pond[/u] as well.[/font]
[/quote]
I just read the wiki quote...
Really interesting stuff.
I think the main problem with "not paying taxes", is because people
don't want to lose their time in work, or their freedoms for being
abused in jail for not paying taxes. Especially when they are
suffering and the others who believe in his cause, don't.
So what if we addressed this problem directly? Actually formed a sort
of "trade union", an actively promoted organisation where thousands or
hundreds of thousands of people could join, so that they could as one
big group, refuse to pay their taxes?
Can you feel the power of that? Just uttering those words. I KNOW if
such an entity was created, it would totally change politics!
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Author: ImmortalistImmortalist Date: Jul 28, 2007 10:37
> [quote name='abaddon_fff' post='348736' date='Jul 28 2007, 06:44 AM']
> For all the forum members, I would recommend that you read at
> least ONE book: Henry David Thoreaus [u]Essay on Civil Disobedience[/
> u]. It will CHANGE the way that you view activism, and society in
> general. If your curiousity is peaked by Thoreau, then read
> [u]Waldens Pond[/u] as well.[/font]
> [/quote]
>
> I just read the wiki quote...
>
> Really interesting stuff.
>
> I think the main problem with "not paying taxes", is because people
> don't want to lose their time in work, or their freedoms for being
> abused in jail for not paying taxes. Especially when they are
> suffering and the others who believe in his cause, don't.
>
> So what if we addressed this problem directly? Actually formed a sort
> of "trade union", an actively promoted organisation where thousands or ...
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Date: Jul 28, 2007 14:26
On Jul 28, 6:37 pm, Immortalist yahoo.com> wrote:>> [quote name='abaddon_fff' post='348736' date='Jul 28 2007, 06:44 AM']
>> For all the forum members, I would recommend that you read at
>> least ONE book: Henry David Thoreaus [u]Essay on Civil Disobedience[/
>> u]. It will CHANGE the way that you view activism, and society in
>> general. If your curiousity is peaked by Thoreau, then read
>> [u]Waldens Pond[/u] as well.[/font]
>> [/quote]
>
>> I just read the wiki quote...
>
>> Really interesting stuff.
>
>> I think the main problem with "not paying taxes", is because people
>> don't want to lose their time in work, or their freedoms for being
>> abused in jail for not paying taxes. Especially when they are ...
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Author: Day BrownDay Brown Date: Jul 28, 2007 18:18
of "trade union", an actively promoted organisation where thousands or
hundreds of thousands of people could join, so that they could as one
big group, refuse to pay their taxes? >
There is such an organization all ready. It is full of Catholic
Priests & nuns. I'm sure they'll let you join. You get to live on real
estate that is tax free too.
You mite even be able to found your own "church" for the purpose,
where the church owns the real estate you live on, the vehicles you
drive, and accepts 501-C3 donations of so much of your cash income
that you dont pay any income taxes. The "congregation" could also
order any consumer goods you wanted from the global economy, delivered
to your door sales tax free. And like the Athenian Deme, could even
own rural land to grow all the food you needed, and supervise that so
it is grown without chemical or biological contamination.
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Author: Sean CarrollSean Carroll Date: Jul 31, 2007 11:35
> So what if we addressed this problem directly? Actually formed a sort
> of "trade union", an actively promoted organisation where thousands or
> hundreds of thousands of people could join, so that they could as one
> big group, refuse to pay their taxes?
Um ... I think those organisations exist. They're called 'clergies'.
> Sounds great eh? Now all I need is someone else to help me do the
> idea :P
I have that same problem with my 'require all actresses under the age of
50 to pose for official nude photos and bare sole shots' idea.
> They can
> either fuck their whole country up and render themselves the most
> hated figures of history, or... just give in, and let the people be
> free.
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