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And yet when taxes are cut they manage to cut the roads and parks and welfare but not the guns and bombs. And they don’t even bother keeping taxes low for the poor, just slash them for the rich
No, I insist: fuck anti taxists
Because people get wrapped up in the no taxation bit and get taken for a ride on that. I’m on the “cut military spending, fund social programs, and increase democracy” bandwagon. I’m on the “representation or fucking else” bandwagon.
Honestly I’m not sure. I work to build alternative power structures and to propagandize to those who aren’t on my side. And by alternative power structures I largely mean unions. But there’s also shit like ballot measures and amending state constitutions. My state banned abortion and we made it a constitutional right in response. Where you have the means to do nonviolent direct democracy use it.
And yeah I’m terrified. Governments are coming after people like me specifically end it’s about to get real bad and idk what to do. It’s not like I can shoot a cop. So I just try to encourage people to know how to run and hide. And I guess you can always read oss sabotage documentation. They had techniques for subtly sabotaging workplaces.
The internet has definitely become a means of performance rather than action.
But I’ll add with another reason I am pro taxation, because it reinforces the idea that we who can pay taxes have a responsibility to contribute to society and shared goods. I’m not demanding free shit, I’m demanding collective payment of things that make society better.