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[–] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Blue States should use this as an opportunity to create an open-source tax filing coalition. That way, if they need to prevent taxes from reaching the feddies or want to secede, some of the infrastructure would already be in place.

Also, it would just be nice to get tax filing done without hassle.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You guys need to stop thinking that states have any control over how much money gets sent to the IRS. Federal taxes are paid directly to the federal government by individuals and businesses, they're not collected by the states and sent on to the feds. States have no mechanism to stop sending money to the IRS, because the state itself isn't the entity that sends money in the first place.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    This ignores reality. When you boil it down, a government's legitimacy is measured in whether people are willing to do something. A something can include refusing taxation, or setting up the means to redirect it into more deserving hands.

    Your argument is questionable, because it denies history. America as we knew it, was founded on the principal of rejecting a king's will.

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