Tax resistance gains attention amid ICE protests, Iran war -- and IRS penalties could follow

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3. Social contract went bye bye long ago

Somewhere it turned into a major bait and switch, if it was ever a good faith deal to begin with - certainly wasn't for everyone...

Study, work hard, eat some shit, arrive early, stay late, chant the chant, and in exchange you'll eventually go to the places that you want to go to, and likely have time at the end to rest before you die... that was the deal. Looking back, it's so obviously not how life works in practice but for the very few, and only for a short time in history.

Personally, and this is a new one for me, I'm done following rules and conventions no one else follows anymore. I think a lot of people are at some point going to walk away from the grind and reinvent, disconnect and rediscover whatever they lost along the way. Hurt people hurt, and everyone is hurting right now. But, they can heal too.

I'll pay my taxes, but we're really looking at how much we want to be a part of what's goin on in general, from social media, to finance (looking at you DOW), to what we buy and how we spend our time at work and at play. So much of it isn't what we ever really wanted, and so much money needed to keep going.

Juice ain't worth the squeeze.