• fafferlicious@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    I’m tired of hearing it’s not that simple. No. It is. It’s not easy, but it is quite simple.

    States should do it. When the legal challenges come, good. It doesn’t fucking matter if it sticks or not.

    Maybe it’ll slow them down. Maybe we just need to flood the zone like they do with nonstop, ridiculous, clearly illegal BULLSHIT.

    We shouldn’t take action because it would invoke a constitutional crisis while recognizing we already have had them (and should have had MORE)?

    They’re LITERALLY interfering with the machinery of our democracy, and we don’t even have enough fucking conviction to TRY FUCKING WITH TAX REVENUE to stop them because ‘it’s not that simple.’

    They TRAFFICK AND RAPE CHILDREN but let’s make sure we only do things we know will absolutely work. The kids can wait.

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      I didn’t say it shouldn’t be done. Just that it’s logistically and politically complicated.

      • FatCrab@slrpnk.net
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        7 hours ago

        Create a free automated tax service run by the state, that operates as a pass-through for all taxes, including those eventually flowing to the fed. Stop passing fed portions through and crack down on banks that facilitate the IRS seeking redress directly from tax payers rather than the state public tax service entity.