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Liberal TIME Magazine now urges all Americans who voted for Hillary to stop paying federal income taxes

At one point, Time Magazine was a reputable publication that published news articles that were actually based in truth. Those days are long gone. Now, the magazine has become a leftist haven for lies and frankly ridiculous rhetoric about how Hillary Clinton should be the next president of the United States. It’s funny to think that just a month ago, they were complaining about conservatives potentially not being willing to accept the results of the election, and now they are the ones not being willing accept those very results.

Furthermore, they are now trying to reject anything and everything that even considers criticizing their warped worldview. They’ve lost their minds completely — and now they’re even adopting conservative ideals in order to push a leftist agenda, but only because they clearly don’t know what they’re talking about.

Mark Weston of Time Magazine reports, “The approximately 65 million Democrats who voted for Hillary Clinton should pledge that in the future if a Republican wins the presidency with fewer votes than a Democrat for the third time in our era, we won’t pay taxes to the federal government. No taxation without representation!”

It’s humorous that after all this time — all of the years of rejecting the libertarian belief that taxation is theft — leftists are now threatening to not pay taxes in order to fight back against the government. When the libertarians and conservatives of the world spoke out against increased taxes, they were called racists and bigots by the very people who are now demanding that nobody who voted for Hillary Clinton have to pay taxes. It doesn’t get any more absurd than that, yet that is what is happening.

This is simply par for the course when it comes to the Regressive Left, though. Their beliefs bounce around as they become convenient for them. They are not based on any actual integrity. That’s why they continue to push ideas that directly conflict with other values that they claim to have. These people have lost what little minds they have left. No other explanation can accurately explain what is happening here.

Regardless, we should all try to convince these people that their boycott is the correct thing to do. In time, perhaps everyone will come around to the belief that taxation really is theft and then we will all be able to live our lives freely without worrying about intervention from the federal government. Is it likely? No. Should it still happen? Definitely.

 

Sources:

Time.com

ZeroHedge.com

Townhall.com

Olympic Games

‘Hero Tax': American Olympians to pay thousands in taxes for winning medals

Michael Phelps is widely regarded as one of the greatest athletes of all time. The most decorated Olympian in the history of the world, Phelps has won 28 medals in the Olympic Games.

Unfortunately, all of those medals came with egregious taxes. No, seriously, the government has found a way to tax the equivalent of championship trophies.

According to the Epoch Times, even though winning comes with a cash prize as well, the potential monetary values of the medals themselves are also taxed. They report, “The athletes are taxed because the Olympic medals and cash bonuses are considered income—just like winning the Nobel Prize, winning on a game show, winning at a casino, or winning the lottery.”

$25,000 is awarded with each gold medal, $15,000 is awarded with each silver medal, and $10,000 is awarded with each bronze medal. Both the medals and the cash rewards are taxed, though. In the end, how much money is left for the Olympians to actually take home? Certainly not enough, considering the amount of work and dedication necessary to reach the Olympic level in any sport.

Phelps alone is estimated to pay around $55,000 in taxes for his victories in Rio.

These athletes are forced to stay in good health and top physical shape all year long in order to compete at the highest level on behalf of our country — they should be rewarded for this.

In 2012, Republican Senator Marco Rubio proposed a bill that would prevent American Olympians from paying these taxes, stating, “We can all agree that these Olympians who dedicate their lives to athletic excellence should not be punished when they achieve it.” The bill unfortunately did not pass. Other senators have attempted to pass similar bills, but nothing has come to fruition yet.

It’s a complete disgrace. This goes to show that not even American heroes are exempt from government enslavement in the form of taxation.

The federal government sucks the life and money out of everything they leech onto. It’s time for the American people to reject this brand of theft.

 

Sources:

TheEpochTimes.com

WSJ.com