If there was a way to withhold my tax dollars to the federal government and only pay state taxes without getting trouble with the IRS, I would do it in a heartbeat. I’m already fucking disgusted that my tax dollars likely helped fund worse things like “Alligator Alcatraz.”
There is a way: emigrate and give up your citizenship. That’s what I did when Dubya started the fascist shitshow after 9/11. I didn’t want any of my hard-earned funneled into torturing innocent people in Gitmo or funding the DHS Gestapo. So I left. I’m glad I did.
FYI. Harder to do that now than ever. Good job getting out when you did. But it’s not like Americans have good options. Most don’t have enough to pay rent let alone emigrate.
Yeah it’s not for everybody: you have to have the means, have the guts to make the jump and not hold any hope for America. Most people lack at least one of those necessary criteria. But if you can do it, it’s a good option: life is much better outside the USA. Trust me on that one.
Oh I agree. I’m a citizen. But traveled a lot for work between 2005 - 2015. The second you experience what Healthcare is like outside the US it radicalizes you. And that’s if the thousands of other tiny and much better experiences don’t enlighten you to how backwards the US is. Tipping alone is so unnecessary.
Also, those 3 criteria are solid. Certainly my experience as well. The only difference being my personal optics. (In that I’m waiting to see what gets built on the ashes of Trump before leaving) So I guess I have molecules of hope? Eitherway, you have solid advice!
I think I would have a harder time because they want people still pay taxes when they live overseas, and would reject me just because I don’t want my taxes to go to bad things.
they want people still pay taxes when they live overseas
That’s why you have to give up your citizenship. The US is one of few countries in the world that run this scam of demanding taxes be paid by people who live abroad.
If there was a way to withhold my tax dollars to the federal government and only pay state taxes without getting trouble with the IRS, I would do it in a heartbeat. I’m already fucking disgusted that my tax dollars likely helped fund worse things like “Alligator Alcatraz.”
There is a way: emigrate and give up your citizenship. That’s what I did when Dubya started the fascist shitshow after 9/11. I didn’t want any of my hard-earned funneled into torturing innocent people in Gitmo or funding the DHS Gestapo. So I left. I’m glad I did.
FYI. Harder to do that now than ever. Good job getting out when you did. But it’s not like Americans have good options. Most don’t have enough to pay rent let alone emigrate.
Yeah it’s not for everybody: you have to have the means, have the guts to make the jump and not hold any hope for America. Most people lack at least one of those necessary criteria. But if you can do it, it’s a good option: life is much better outside the USA. Trust me on that one.
Oh I agree. I’m a citizen. But traveled a lot for work between 2005 - 2015. The second you experience what Healthcare is like outside the US it radicalizes you. And that’s if the thousands of other tiny and much better experiences don’t enlighten you to how backwards the US is. Tipping alone is so unnecessary.
Also, those 3 criteria are solid. Certainly my experience as well. The only difference being my personal optics. (In that I’m waiting to see what gets built on the ashes of Trump before leaving) So I guess I have molecules of hope? Eitherway, you have solid advice!
I think I would have a harder time because they want people still pay taxes when they live overseas, and would reject me just because I don’t want my taxes to go to bad things.
That’s why you have to give up your citizenship. The US is one of few countries in the world that run this scam of demanding taxes be paid by people who live abroad.
You can adjust your W4 and hope the IRS is so underfunded they can’t go after you.