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Going Galt

Posted on 03/21/2010 2:25:14 PM PDT by kindredspirit

My husband and I have discussed ways to mitigate the punitive taxes that will be even greater next year. We have been saving like crazy and are thinking of "Going Galt" like the character in Ayn Rand's book, Atlas Shrugged. John Galt, an industrial leader, drops out of a corrupt and unjust system until it implodes. Anyone else thinking along those lines?


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KEYWORDS: galt; taxes; vanity
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To: FreedBird

Would donating without bothering to get receipts be a good idea? If the IRS is checking for health insurance, might they be feeding other databases as to how much you donate to each political / religious side?


41 posted on 03/21/2010 2:40:00 PM PDT by tbw2 (Freeper sci-fi - "Humanity's Edge" - on amazon.com)
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To: RobRoy

I pay over $4,000 a year property tax on a $130,000 house. The only thing bad about Texas.


42 posted on 03/21/2010 2:40:09 PM PDT by Terry Mross (We need a second Sons of Liberty)
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To: RobRoy

I give to my local parish to keep the lights on and that’s pretty much all, oh, and Salvation Army.


43 posted on 03/21/2010 2:40:21 PM PDT by Mercat
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To: Mercat

What is KCMO?


44 posted on 03/21/2010 2:41:01 PM PDT by tbw2 (Freeper sci-fi - "Humanity's Edge" - on amazon.com)
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To: kindredspirit

Going Galt. Does not have to mean abandoning society...at least not yet. There is also the strategy of Gulching in plain sight. (earn cash. pay cash. work for self.)

I think that this strategy should be employed as one of many for the times that are ahead. It battle the first axiom is to leave yourself a retreat.


45 posted on 03/21/2010 2:41:33 PM PDT by greybull (The War starts Monday morning after Sunday night prayers.)
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To: kindredspirit

take your money and yourself out of the system to go Galt.


46 posted on 03/21/2010 2:41:37 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: kindredspirit

yes


47 posted on 03/21/2010 2:41:45 PM PDT by Total Package (TOLEDO, OHIO THE MRSA INFECTION IN THE STATE and the death of freedom)
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To: dennisw

Aren’t the Amish exempt from Obamacare taxes? Or just Obamcare medical system?


48 posted on 03/21/2010 2:41:53 PM PDT by tbw2 (Freeper sci-fi - "Humanity's Edge" - on amazon.com)
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To: kindredspirit

A lot of people started working their own Galt plan a long time ago, when it first became obvious that Premier Hussein ibn Soetero, ibn Obama al Kenyati was probably going to win the election.

Take a look at what ammunition sales have been like in the Nation for two years, and consider that a strong indicator that someone is preparing for something...

Our local feed store has been selling 1000 baby chicks a week since mid February, and will keep selling that many or more through May. That is one hell of a lot of chicken meat and hen fruit out in the local populace, and that is from only one source. Consider that another excellent indicator of an emerging underground economy, barter economy or Galt economy; whatever you want to call it....


49 posted on 03/21/2010 2:42:18 PM PDT by Bean Counter (I keeps mah feathers numbered, for just such an emergency...)
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To: RobRoy

One thing we gave up was our ability to live off the land. See my previous post. Learn basic skills. Gardening, canning, hunting, fishing, sewing, etc.


50 posted on 03/21/2010 2:42:26 PM PDT by Indy Pendance (Gone Galt)
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To: tbw2

Kansas City MO. Actually we live in Johnson County KS and the farm is one county west, where the Jayhawks, lately of the NCAA tournament, reside.


51 posted on 03/21/2010 2:42:52 PM PDT by Mercat
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To: RobRoy

socialist run charities...that would be the government


52 posted on 03/21/2010 2:43:01 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: tbw2

Kansas City, Missouri.


53 posted on 03/21/2010 2:43:20 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: dalebert

Um, have you? If so, read that line again.


54 posted on 03/21/2010 2:43:29 PM PDT by Indy Pendance (Gone Galt)
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To: kindredspirit

Already living in small western valley for the winter doing nothing taxable.


55 posted on 03/21/2010 2:44:08 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Mercat
where the Jayhawks, lately of the NCAA tournament,

Ouch. Northern Iowa ended my pool dreams last night.

56 posted on 03/21/2010 2:44:40 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: Retired Greyhound

A number of people who said they are Democrats have told me they haven’t paid their state and federal income taxes in years. Our little business pays all our taxes and does it at the proper time, still we get audited regularly. We are being harassed, really, since we rarely owe anything, and sometimes have overpaid.

Don’t tell me that the IRS and the Democrat Party aren’t connected. Conservatives are marked.


57 posted on 03/21/2010 2:44:48 PM PDT by July4 (Remember the price paid for your freedom.)
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To: Indy Pendance

America was headed for financial collpase before this bill. It will just speed it up a couple of years. Go to youtube and see Marc Faber about the impending collpase where there will chaos due to the debt implosion. Bernanke will keep inflating out of this mess but ultimely it will fail.


58 posted on 03/21/2010 2:45:36 PM PDT by ground_fog
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To: RobRoy

I would seriously suggest STRONGLY to everyone... DO NOT ADVERTISE YOUR PLANS, only to your closest, trusted friends and relatives. ESPECIALLY ON THE INTERNET! The moochers will be at your door when the shtf!


59 posted on 03/21/2010 2:45:39 PM PDT by Indy Pendance (Gone Galt)
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To: kindredspirit
Must Read in these trying times...

Starving The Monkeys

We can starve the monkeys of the value they steal from us. But this requires a deep understanding of where that value comes from in the first place, so that we can turn off the valve. Shallow efforts to resist by refusing to pay your income taxes will only get you arrested, or worse.

Nor do these solutions involve violence, "grab your gun" or any other kind of "let's go git 'em, boys!" kind of foolishness.

Doing that would only get you killed. And the responsible parties would rejoice at your sacrifice. Because that is exactly what they want you to do. Get killed, so that you, and your ideas, are out of the way.

Don't give them the satisfaction. Besides, your brothers are going to need you later.

There is a much, MUCH, better way. This way.

60 posted on 03/21/2010 2:45:41 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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