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Time Urges 65 Million Americans Who Voted For Hillary Not To Pay Taxes
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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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hillary2016; hillarylost; liberalmedia; taxevasion; timemag
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To: TigerClaws

Someone needs their diaper changed.


41 posted on 12/06/2016 1:19:56 PM PST by fwdude (Stronger, To Get Her)
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To: TigerClaws

They already don’t pay taxes. Big whoop.


42 posted on 12/06/2016 1:20:33 PM PST by blackdog
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To: RooRoobird20

“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.”

Yeah they round them up off of the street, give them a six-pack and a carton of smokes, and then take them to their nearest polling place where they vote as they have been told.


43 posted on 12/06/2016 1:20:38 PM PST by vette6387
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To: TigerClaws

Democracy restored? So it’s only democracy if their candidate wins?


44 posted on 12/06/2016 1:20:51 PM PST by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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To: TigerClaws

except most of her supporters dont actually pay taxes


45 posted on 12/06/2016 1:21:27 PM PST by Mr. K ( Trump kicked her ass 2-to-1 if you remove all the voter fraud.)
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To: TigerClaws

Let there be a thorough investigation of illegal voting before we determine who won the most votes.


46 posted on 12/06/2016 1:21:38 PM PST by Socon-Econ
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To: TigerClaws

ok we can go to popular vote as soon as we purge all the voter rolls and install mandatory voter ID. Deal? Thought not.


47 posted on 12/06/2016 1:23:30 PM PST by Hyman Roth
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To: TigerClaws

I’m investing in prisons.


48 posted on 12/06/2016 1:23:42 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

That’s what I was thinking.....


49 posted on 12/06/2016 1:24:05 PM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: TigerClaws

I’m pretty sure there is something in one of the IRS publications that states that it is legal to avoid paying taxes if you aren’t happy with the outcome of an election.


50 posted on 12/06/2016 1:26:49 PM PST by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: TigerClaws

lol

Geez!!! AGAIN what ####ing babies!!!

Just wow!!!

little boys and girls. it’s Pathetic.

Or are the 65 million so ####ing dumb that they don’t know about the electoral college?


51 posted on 12/06/2016 1:27:10 PM PST by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: TigerClaws
Funny how times --and TIME --changes. The argument they're floating was a "plank" of the LGBTQXYZ movement decades ago: Why should we pay taxes when we don't enjoy the same rights as straight people? Everybody stop paying until we have equal rights!

I tried to follow that radical 'story' but it was abandoned by the msm rather quickly and the next thing I knew, Bobby has Two Mommies was being read to first graders in [some] public schools.

The story TIME ought to run is, Without Trump Supporters, Nobody At All Would Still Be Paying Taxes! ;)

52 posted on 12/06/2016 1:30:24 PM PST by hold_muh_bier (and watch this: 8 years of a Trump Presidency followed by 8 years of a Pence Presidency!)
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To: TigerClaws

Time probably still has a few paying subscribers left.

That scant/small number probably outnumbers the Clintoon’s tax paying voters.


53 posted on 12/06/2016 1:33:03 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Hey, whining losers,Trump will just go ahead & make things better for us without you!!!!")
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To: TigerClaws

They should show us they really mean it and stop taking tax monies.


54 posted on 12/06/2016 1:35:34 PM PST by TigersEye (Congratulations, President Donald J. Trump! - Let's MAGA!!!)
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To: TigerClaws

Could such felons lose their right to vote?


55 posted on 12/06/2016 1:38:24 PM PST by BeauBo
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To: TigerClaws

Of the Hillary! supporters who do pay taxes, most of them are W-2 wage earners from government or public school jobs.

Ironically, the system they set up makes it virtually impossible not to pay income tax, and probably most other taxes as well.

Live by the sword; die by the sword...


56 posted on 12/06/2016 1:44:47 PM PST by Paulie (America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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To: TigerClaws

LOL. Exactly. At least a majority of Hillary voters don’t pay any taxes and are net sponges off the government.


57 posted on 12/06/2016 1:46:16 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: TigerClaws

Hmm...

Penalties and seized assets could be a real Federal Income boost!?!?


58 posted on 12/06/2016 1:46:30 PM PST by G Larry (America has the opportunity to return to God.)
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To: TigerClaws

But it was SO GREAT to pay taxes under Barry. Suck it up pea brains, we had to put up with the moron you idiots put in charge for eight years. Now it is your turn.


59 posted on 12/06/2016 1:49:28 PM PST by jetson
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To: TigerClaws

I say, Time, lead by example...I thought so.


60 posted on 12/06/2016 1:55:07 PM PST by nuf said (I am, therefore I think.)
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