• _Mantissa@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    That’s great and all, but the government doesn’t really care how they get their money just that they get it. If they want to they will take it from your paychecks (garnished wages). The only way to avoid this is to not have income, work under the table, or move out of country. No amount of refusing to pay will change that. (mass movements/ mass striking might though)

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      11 months ago

      Then people will just take their checks through an LLC and be independent contractors. Or go into business for themselves. Or just revolt.

      The last one is the most worrisome.

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          11 months ago

          That’s partly why it’s so worrisome. 10 years ago, it would have meant something, but now it’s too late, and I fear now it will only negatively contribute to climate collapse and cause the genocide we hope to avoid.

          I think it might be too late to save the country and we all ought to get several state governments to secede… and if a civil war brews because of that, then it would at least have some semblance of a positive outcome.