"BUT I WANTED HILLARY TO WIIIN! I WANT HIIIILLLLLARY TO WINIIIN !!! WWAAAAAAH!"
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.
Great idea Time. Don’t pay taxes, get convicted of a felony, not able to vote anymore! I LOVE this idea!
Self-correcting.
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That is an interesting point. The Republic was structured with certain anti-democratic safeguards, including the Electoral College.
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Quite a few safeguards (”...shall NOT be infringed”, A1S8, 9/10th, 5th, 13th, 14th). Never seemed to make a difference to the Socialists, of both parties anywho, when 99% of govt is illegal/unconstitutional (I dare say State as well as Fed).
Good idea! Then they can be convicted of felonies and removed from the voter rolls.
"BUT I WANTED HILLARY TO WIIIN! I WANT HIIIILLLLLARY TO WINIIIN !!! WWAAAAAAH!"
Most of Hillary’s voters were the ‘Gibmedats’, who do not pay taxes...
If you subtract four counties in California, Trump also won the popular vote.
Fine....Are they going to retroactively refund the taxes I paid while Obama was president & I was unrepresented?
Yup, a great many are credits receivers, net takers. Would actually help. LOL!
Exactly. How will we be able to noitce that they are not paying their taxes when they mostly paid none in the first place?
I think that kid has a higher IQ than a typical Hillary voter...
Time is really stupid, those 65 million people don’t pay taxes anyway.
Heck, I’d agree to a popular vote in a heartbeat. Just as soon as the dead people and the illegals stop voting.
Bingo - the founding fathers knew that historically, every democracy committed financial suicide as soon as the public discovered they could “vote” themselves money from the public treasury. We are indeed on that path. But for the first time, thanks to our founding fathers and the millions of conservatives, tea party folks and constitutionalists who have all been studying the Constitution, we just may restore our republic!
MAGA and let these idiots die on their own Fedzilla dead vine.
“we won’t pay taxes to the federal government… until democracy is restored.”
You cant restore what never existed. The US is and has always been a Democratic Republic. It has never been majority rules.
“If the parties stay this evenly divided, another electoral mishap is more likely than not in the next 20 years”.
Following the Constitution and the rules is not a mishap (unless you are a crazed leftist who LOST)
“Even the taunt, “Are you afraid of a direct election? Can’t you win a straight-up vote?” doesn’t faze them”.
Because Republicans aren’t whiney babies. They understand and respect the Constitution and the dangers of a pure Democracy.
“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”.
So you wont get in trouble for pledging not to pay taxes as long as you keep paying them. Such pledge is worthless, like all DemocRAT pledges. Brilliant.
“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.”
Losing an election is not “Lack of representation”. Such mindless drivel is not surprizing coming from leftists who have hard time deciding what gender they are and which bathroom to use.
Time just named Trump person of the year. LMAO.
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