Thursday marks the 30th day of the federal government shutdown and the American public has grown more concerned about the shutdown throughout the month and more disapprove of how Donald Trump is handling the federal government, according to an ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll conducted using Ipsos’ KnowledgePanel.
More Americans blame Trump and the Republicans in Congress than the Democrats for the shutdown, the poll finds.
No taxation without representation.
A shut down government isn’t representing anyone. So it should come out of taxes.
The explosive growth of gig jobs that count as contracted work that don’t automatically take taxes out of pay may accidentally be the best way to achieve this.
Because if you work a traditional job, generally your taxes get pulled and sent to the Federal government automatically every paycheck unless you have asked for an amount to be withheld from that (and I don’t actually know if you can withhold all your tax money from being taken out of paychecks or not).
There’s also options like this that I found on (slight retch) reddit:
DISCLAIMER: This is not an endorsement to not pay your taxes. This is a thought experiment about how such a thing could be achieved.
Intriguing. Any tax pros willing to weigh in?