I do admire the government. I mean, say whatever you want, but brainwashing entire nation into believing that not paying the taxes to the government that doesn't do what you pay them to do isn't an option to be considered....

@ThatCrazyDude It's less brainwashing than straight up threat of property seizure at gunpoint, imprisonment, or even death (they didn't buy all those fancy firearms for no reason) for non-compliance. I often wonder what would happen if the entire country at once refused to pay. Would taxation become unenforceable? And how could you evade the withholding being stolen straight out of your check if you are an employee?

@Vox @ThatCrazyDude

I often wonder what would happen if the entire country at once refused to pay.

Collapse of the police system, then lynching of most business owners after the first economic crisis and mass firings, followed by lolberts crying for the state to save them because animals or something

@moffintosh @Vox @ThatCrazyDude
That kind of a scenario is pointless.
If it would include cops and army refusing to enforce, then the inevitable death of politicians would cause much more.

If it didn't include the breakdown of enforcement, then people would start paying after a few examples being set.

And if politicians were still protected, and cops refused to enforce only taxes, then politicians would cover everything in inflation alone.

@LukeAlmighty @moffintosh @Vox I don't think that in this purely hypothetical scenario the law enforcement or even the state military would do a jack squat even if the top brass wanted to. I mean, think about it. How many soldiers and cops do you have very 1,000 if general population.The traditional military doctrine is that you need at the very least 25 combat personnel per 1000 occupied population to just survive.And that's not counting all the logistics personnel and shit,which is x4 minimum

@LukeAlmighty @moffintosh @Vox and on top of that, if you're trying to effectively occupy your own country that's rebelling, you gotta take into account that probably not everyone in your fighting force will be cool shooting his relative, friend or a neighbor.

@ThatCrazyDude @moffintosh @Vox
So, you are no longer talking about taxes.

@LukeAlmighty @moffintosh @Vox well, no. The discussion sort of drifted sideways 🤣

@ThatCrazyDude @moffintosh @Vox
No, your initial premise includes open armed revolution.
Your initial premise is not about taxes.

@LukeAlmighty @moffintosh @Vox you might want to go to the top of the thread.

@ThatCrazyDude @moffintosh @Vox
> noagendasocial
Oh, I get it now.

@LukeAlmighty @moffintosh @Vox I'm fairly confident you don't get it. But that's fine. I don't have high expectations. I'll just spell it out for you, since you clearly need it: if the nation were to collectively say no to taxes, because they're not getting what they're paying for or whatever, there would be no armed conflict, because no single cop nor a military commander with like 5 working neurons would even consider the possibility they can win.

@ThatCrazyDude @LukeAlmighty @Vox

if the nation were to collectively say no to taxes

Then I'm told commies are utopian, but go on

@moffintosh @LukeAlmighty @Vox and you can only process 10 words at a time? Putting it in the context in the entire conversation is really that big of an ask? C'mon, lad. My wife's parrots can do better than that

@ThatCrazyDude @LukeAlmighty @Vox

I don't think that in this purely hypothetical scenario the law enforcement or even the state military would do a jack squat even if the top brass wanted to.

If this hypotetical is anywhere near what you expect, then I've seen anarcokiddies with more realistic plans. If this is not what you really expect, spell it out, precisely.

@moffintosh @LukeAlmighty @Vox seriously, lad, how old are you? I mean, how dumb do you need to be to read this thread and even consider that I think something like this can happen?
Let me do some spelling out. Again. There's not enough retards in the military and the law enforcement for that to be a viable option. You can join to improve the odds though.

@ThatCrazyDude @LukeAlmighty @Vox

If this is not what you really expect, spell it out, precisely.

@moffintosh @LukeAlmighty @Vox holy shit! You can copy and paste! I clearly underestimated you. My apologies

@ThatCrazyDude @LukeAlmighty @Vox When you stop running away, you know my handle

@moffintosh @LukeAlmighty @Vox yeah. Also, move like water. Can be sewer water, I suppose, so you're not left out.

@ThatCrazyDude @moffintosh @Vox
Btw, do you support seniors being payed a pension?

@LukeAlmighty @moffintosh @Vox absolutely. To a certain point though. If they did have the option to invest in retirement fund and they chose not to, then no. But those who didn't have that option, hell yeah. They worked for it

@ThatCrazyDude @moffintosh @Vox
So, people unable to work would be fucked?

@LukeAlmighty @moffintosh @Vox people who had the possibility to invest in their future but chose not to would be fucked. Being adult is all about taking responsibility. Or am I wrong?

@ThatCrazyDude @moffintosh @Vox
I am asking about people who never had an option to work

@LukeAlmighty @moffintosh @Vox the way i see it, if they had no option to work, the society should support them. That being said though, I have yet to meet a person that had no option to work. And I grew up in Poland in the early 80's, which wasn't exactly economic bonanza, so there's that

@ThatCrazyDude @moffintosh @Vox
But what if everyone decided to not pay taxes?