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DanieRains

(4,619 posts) Thu Sep 17, 2020, 09:57 AM Sep 2020

Send Your Income Tax To Your Mayor / Governor

Instead of the Trump Gang.

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Send Your Income Tax To Your Mayor / Governor (Original Post) DanieRains Sep 2020 OP

You'll pay the penalty, right? NT mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2020 #1

To what end? It would be returned to you, MineralMan Sep 2020 #2

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,621 posts)

1. You'll pay the penalty, right? NT

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Thu Sep 17, 2020, 10:04 AM

Sep 2020

MineralMan

(146,333 posts)

2. To what end? It would be returned to you,

Reply to DanieRains (Original post)

Thu Sep 17, 2020, 10:13 AM

Sep 2020

and would still need to be submitted to the IRS for processing.

We don't pay taxes to Trump. We pay them to the IRS. Our federal income taxes go to fund federal programs.

Your idea would be a hollow protest that would have zero impact on anything.

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