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      That’s a fantasy. What we could do is stop voting the party that does things like remove healthcare coverage from 17 million people so it can give more tax cuts to billionaires.

      But we insist on saying both sides are the “same” instead.

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    Which is why usually there was laws to prevent them from doing whatever they wanted but that’s out the window.

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      Law only exists to control those lower in the hierarchy than the ones who hold ruling authority over its enforcement and interpretation.

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    Not a great example to compare yourself to. He was actually the lying, asshole, bad guy the whole time.

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      Yeah, but he killed a Nazi and a rich golfing asshole. And he got to die too, so like, win win win. Three less assholes in the world, minimum.

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    Circulate this on right-wing sites and social media, not Lemmy.

    We need more conservatives and liberals realizing that they’re in a class war, not a race war.

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    I used to kind of be against tax evasion, after passage of the big bunch of bullshit bill I’m philosophically on the side of small time federal tax evaders. Nobody should be funding this government and its massive hand jibber program for the rich. The federal tax code has completely become a way to redistribute money upwards.

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    Taxation becoming automated and controlled by our place of employment is exactly why it is paramount that workers own our places of employment even more so than in the past.

    If we own our places of employment, we can collectively refuse to continue funding this fascist regime and utilize those funds for our own local, grass-roots initiatives.

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      Just want to say that employers don’t actually control your withholdings. By law, you can submit a new W-4 to change your withholdings at any time. In fact, it’s often built-in to HR software to make it even easier to do.

      Of course, you still have to contend with the IRS come tax time if you underpay through the year.