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Originally Posted by Zoot
Thoreau disagreed.
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And he got arrested for it, and it achieved roughly fuck all. It was a lot easier for him, anyway. He could actually physically refrain from giving money to someone. In a country where income tax is payed 'as you earn' by your employer, you would have to get a different job with an employer who is prepared to pay you illegally, under the table. A lot of people do this already, and they are generally viewed as criminals, so good luck pursuading anybody that your motives are politcal, rather than financial. Then, when the IRD eventually caught you out, you would need to make sure you had no bank account or any siezable assets of any kind. Basically, you would have to avoid participating in the capitalist framework of the country altogether. It would not be impossible to do that while also maintaining a comfortable lifestyle, but it would be bloody hard work. And no one would know you were doing it to protest the Government's lack of transparency regarding the activities of the SAS unless you marched up the street and told them so. But then you might as well just skip the whole tax thing and get straight to marching up the street, because that would achieve roughly the same ends with an awful lot less disruption to your lifestyle.
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I'm giving money to people to buy weapons and use them, and they won't tell me how they're using them.
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No, you are giving money to people to buy food and clothes for the children of an unemployed solo mum. The activities of the SAS are paid for by the taxes of people who believe solo mums should be left to fend for themselves.