We need to start with what we control; how, where and when we spend our money.
Food? Find a local farm or mom and pop grocer. Eat economically, cook your own meals, can and jar your own preserved foods, hunt the meat you eat. Fast Food? No thanks. Chain restaurant? Not unless they’re based. Locally owned restaurants when you want to go out are the best bet. Support your immediate community.
Entertainment? No thanks to Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon. Get a vpn and start using Solar Movie. Better yet, dust off those old board games, get a deck of cards and some poker chips, or a few good books from your local book shop and make family activities great again. Get yourself and your kids (if you have them) outdoors. Hiking, biking, climbing, rolling in the dirt, anything you can do that doesn’t cost money. If you want to travel, travel to red states or based European countries (Poland, Hungary, Lithuania).
Basic household goods? Hard to get around supporting the multinationals here, but check your local grocer for toothpaste, deodorant, etc... If you’re still lucky enough to have a local pharmacy and not a cvs/Walgreens then you’re lucky. Support them.
Social media? The Donald, Parler, Rumble, etc... don’t give these big tech 1984 companies your eyeball dollars.
We killed Faux News overnight. It’s time we stop giving quarter to companies that lobby the government for favorable deals that stifle competition. End cronyism, bring back true, free market capitalism.
We need to support our communities and support each other. We don’t need to support a bunch of power hungry multinationals that don’t give a shit about our country. Hit ‘em where it hurts, their bottom line.
We’ve never met, but know that I love all of you. Spread the love far and wide pedes. We live in the greatest Country in the World, and we’ll never take the backseat to a corrupt communist hellhole that is controlled by a genocidal regime. Talking about you China. 🖕🏻
I’ve thought a lot about not paying taxes, but it seems like this is just a convenient way to let the government fuck you via the irs, etc.. I’m all for civil disobedience, but we would need 10s of millions of ppl all not filing to do it effectively. Curious to know your thoughts.
I have a few thoughts on this. If you're dumb about it and illegally evade taxes then I guess you could get caught. On the other hand, the IRS is apparently severely understaffed with investigators so unless you're a big fish, a political problem, or you're caught by an automated system then you'll probably be fine.
And while it might not make an impact immediately, no one likes paying taxes and working for yourself has become so easy that I think it's worth a shot to try to reduce your tax burden as much as possible.