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Can't Run Away!
Eschaton — Can't Run Away! US taxes worldwide income of citizens, so Jonah can't run away from his taxes!

I Don't Want To Pay For It Cont'd
The Corner on National Review Online — Friday, February 27, 2009 [image] I Don't Want To Pay For It Cont'd [ Jonah Goldberg ] Steven Benen's really boring response to my "I don't want to pay it" post earlier today seems to be eliciting some remarkably stupid email. Basically he says I can work less or leave the country. Well, I'm not going to leave the country because I love it so. As for the suggestion that people who don't want to pay all the extra taxes coming down the pike to pay for Obama's enormous expansion of the government should simply work less, maybe if he squints really hard he'll see ...

Strange days
The Sideshow — ... I really enjoyed reading the comments to Steve's post about Jonah's dilemma, where people offered suggestions on how Mr. Pantload could avoid paying taxes. (Note: If Jonah moves to a friendly country and makes less than $80K a year, he won't have to pay any taxes to the US government. Based on his skill set, that shouldn't be hard to accomplish. Only if the right-wing gravy train pays him more than that would he owe the USG anything, unless he renounces his citizenship.) ...

Suck it up, Jonah
The Reaction — ... nor did I enjoy paying my taxes for any of the other stuff you so heartily endorsed during the Bush years. But the 1040 form doesn't come with a check boxes. And besides, one of the responsibilities we have as citizens is to pay for what we have whether we like it or not. If you don't like it, you vote someone else into office. And listening to you whine like an ill-mannered six year old doesn't make your case for putting your kind of people back into power. HT to Steve and Boatboy. (Cross-posted from Bark Bark Woof Woof.) ...