Posted on 12/06/2016 12:54:02 PM PST by TigerClaws
Under the twisted premise of losing the popular vote and “no taxation without representation”, TIME’s Mark Weston proclaims that the approximately 65 million Democrats who voted for Hillary Clinton should pledge “we won’t pay taxes to the federal government… until democracy is restored.”
Because, It’s just not fair?
Twice in the past 16 years, a Republican candidate who finished second in the popular vote has won the presidency. This year, Donald Trump won the electoral vote with about 46% of the popular vote, while Hillary Clinton received about 48%. If the parties stay this evenly divided, another electoral mishap is more likely than not in the next 20 years.
Most Republicans are quite content with this system. Appeals to fairness have not persuaded them of the need to amend the Constitution to establish direct presidential elections, preferably with a runoff if no one wins 50% of the vote. Nor does the real chance that a Democrat could win the presidency with fewer votes than a Republican alarm them. Even the taunt, “Are you afraid of a direct election? Can’t you win a straight-up vote?” doesn’t faze them. Democrats must, therefore, pester Republicans where it hurts: the pocketbook.
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.
A national movement not to pay federal taxes in the future would put Republicans on notice: they do not have the right to impose a hard-right, second-place presidency on a moderate nation every dozen or so years. If the Republicans won’t help amend the Constitution so that America can resume being a democracy, then Democrats, lacking the representation that supporters of a future popular vote-winner ought to have in the executive branch, should not submit to paying taxes to the federal government.
Will they stop sending back the child tax credit money to Mexico?
Jeez... these people are so ignorant.
How many times, does one have to explain, that if it were a popular vote, the campaign would have been different.
Cool. This is an excellent crisis to shrink government dramatically.
I wonder if all of the illegals that voted for Hillary pay taxes?
Probably is 64 million of the 65 million pay no taxes anyway ...
So 52% of the popular vote was not for Hillary?
If Time did a little fact-checking, they would find that most of Cankle’s supporters are welfare/entitlement slugs, they don’t pay taxes anyway.
Damn, I was hoping to suggest this as a first response if Stein’s irrational recounts did turn the election to Clinton. If that happens would I need to pay Time copyright fees.?
my thought exactly
All Democrats go to Leavenworth?
Works for me.
Democrats trying to starve the beast, lost causers wanting to secede in California... the world really did turn upside down when Trump was elected, lol.
Time Magazine = Loserville
Likely most of her voters weren’t paying anyway.
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Good. We can cut off their welfare bunnies too.
Excellent point and they may receive subsidies, too. So if they don’t file they don’t get any freebies.
Purge California
(those there that wish can petition for their area to return to the union)
Legal voters? No.
2-3 million of her votes were from citizens of foreign countries not eligible to vote in the U.S.
In fact, it’s a felony to do so.
But did Obama encourage them to break the law? Yep. Go look on YouTube...
they are coming out of the woodwork.
catharsis is good.
conflict is under rated.
“...Likely most of her voters weren’t paying anyway..”
Beat me to it! I was going to comment that since most of the Hilary voters were the 49% (or whatever that number is exactly - I know it isn’t too far off from almost half) that don’t pay any taxes - who will notice?
You are correct. No Clinton has ever won a majority of votes cast for POTUS.
Well maybe we can stop giving them benefits, too. I’ll bet it winds up being a net financial gain.
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