Heh heh.  Don, if I paid income taxes I might be tempted to join you,
but over the course of my life I've paid little in taxes and probably
have gotten more from government that I ever paid to them.  For most
of my life I looked at the whole thing as a big game where I had to be
a bit slicker and smarter than the government -- not a very difficult
task.

On Feb 24, 6:05 pm, Don Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm against rioting in the streets but I'm all for civil disobedience.
> If we en mass refused to pay federal taxes for last year I think we
> might get Washington's attention.  Start simply by applying for
> extensions and taking every legal route to delay paying right up until
> the court order to pay and then just quietly say "No."
>
> Whatta ya say gang?  Who's with me?
>
> dj
>
> Disclaimer:  Above suggestion is purely rhetorical and I have no
> intention of disobeying the law or avoiding my fiscal obligation to my
> country.  Nor am I aware of any group planning to do so.  All Hail
> Obama!  His truth is shining on.
>
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > That's what we need to happen gruff, then the world will realize that
> > we never really did need the bashstards (scot accent) and that we can
> > "Grow Food" without them.  Banks are a system for the wealthy and that
> > is why they are giving billions of dollars to the unscrupulous creeps
> > that are throwing people out on the street instead of giving the money
> > to the people who really need it.  It's protectionism for society's
> > elite.  Are the banks lowering interest rates and refinancing? NO!!
> > Illinois based Northern Trust just took $1.6 Billion dollars from the
> > tax payers and went on a vacation jaunt in Southern California and
> > hired the Band Chicago for $100,000, this all with Tax Payer Money.
> > These people are spitting on us.  Tax breaks that are going to give a
> > family an extra $65 a month is pathetic.  $600 to $1200 per family
> > stimulus money is pathetic.  They should give everyone  $100,000 to
> > stimulate the economy, but you see it's the economy of the rich that
> > they want to stimulate.  There will be rioting in the streets even if
> > the banks don't collapse because people are starting to realize what
> > Schleps they are and how tied into the economic Slavery program they
> > are.  Why should I give money to a bank that is throwing my friend out
> > on the street when I could give the money to my friend instead?  To
> > Hell with the Bashstards!!
>
> > On Feb 23, 8:16 am, gruff <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Banks, more than any other industry, can't be allowed to fail.
> >> Financing and credit are so interwoven into the economies of all
> >> nations that should the banks fail the entire economy would go
> >> bust.    This may not be right but, as one talking head noted
> >> yesterday on the tube, lending has almost become a utility just like
> >> power and water.   If the banks are allowed to fail, I'm afraid
> >> society and civilization as we know it will also fail.  Then there
> >> will be rioting in the streets, for certain.
>
> >> However, I agree that since the top four or five percent of the world
> >> owns and controls forty or more percent of the wealth, they should be
> >> called to account and to help.
>
> >> On Feb 17, 3:27 pm, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> > I see people who have paid taxes for years being thrown out on the
> >> > street by banks who are foreclosing on their homes while tax payer
> >> > money is being doled out in billions to the same banks.  Who are those
> >> > people making millions of dollars every year taking tax payers money.
> >> > By what right do they have to use tax money for that purpose. What is
> >> > wrong with people in allowing this to go on?  Why doesn't the
> >> > government use tax payer money to bring mortgages up to date and order
> >> > banks to refinance at a lower rate.   It wouldn't even cost one
> >> > billion to keep families in their homes.   Where are the wealthy, so
> >> > called benefactors, Gates and Buffet in all of this?  Why shouldn't
> >> > banks be allowed to fall just like others?  It seems they, the upper
> >> > echelon of society, still live in their own lofty worlds without a
> >> > care for humanity.  What is wrong with them?  I predict a national
> >> > breakdown in civility, a Ya Basta stance issued by the people.
> >> > Rioting and looting and arch's political bloodletting ritual.
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