‘Dollar Bill Protest’ underway, and for great cause (Hippies United Globally)

[babsbunny]

http://www.examiner.com/charleston-democrat-in-charleston-sc/dollar-bill-protest-underway-and-for-great-cause

Rob Groce
, Charleston Democrat Examiner
July 30, 2011 - Like this? Subscribe to get instant updates.

Face it – sometimes, organizing a national protest can cost too much.

That doesn’t mean you can’t use your money to participate in one particular new demonstration, though. In fact, all you have to do is grab a pen, scribble on the cash you already carry, and spend those dollars the way you already do

And given the general theme of this national protest, there probably isn’t any better way to get the message across.

"This is $1 more than GE, Bank of America or Exxon has paid in taxes," are the words encouraged to be signed upon your singles. You can personalize it, too, by including the favorite of all your least-favorite elected officials: "Recall .”

[Bluzmann57]

1. Great idea!

Think I'll do it today since I have to go to the store and get shaving cream, etc. Thanks!

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Writing on money is a great way to spread a message

And if you come across any bills that say IMPEACH BUSH AND CHENEY you have NO idea who wrote that. Ok?

[Bluzmann57]

7. Oh my. I can't imagine anyone ever doing that.

:evilgrin:

[BiggJawn]

10. I did.

I had a rubber stamp made up.

[metalbot]

3. Nice idea, but it's dishonest as saying 48% of Americans don't pay taxes

Exxon paid $20 billion in taxes on $50 billion in income. Just not to the US government...

[Scuba]

4. What's your point?

[notadmblnd]

5. You're up awful early defending corporations

what's up with that?

[Motown_Johnny]

13. ExxonMobil paid no federal income taxes in 2009. (Updated)

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/04/06/90299/exxon-tax/

^snip^


ExxonMobil paid no federal income tax in 2009. (Updated)

By Ben Armbruster on Apr 6, 2010 at 9:52 am

Last week, Forbes magazine published what the top U.S. corporations paid in taxes last year. “Most egregious,” Forbes notes, is General Electric, which “generated $10.3 billion in pretax income, but ended up owing nothing to Uncle Sam. In fact, it recorded a tax benefit of $1.1 billion.” Big Oil giant Exxon Mobil, which last year reported a record $45.2 billion profit, paid the most taxes of any corporation, but none of it went to the IRS:

Exxon tries to limit the tax pain with the help of 20 wholly owned subsidiaries domiciled in the Bahamas, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands that (legally) shelter the cash flow from operations in the likes of Angola, Azerbaijan and Abu Dhabi. No wonder that of $15 billion in income taxes last year, Exxon paid none of it to Uncle Sam, and has tens of billions in earnings permanently reinvested overseas.

Mother Jones’ Adam Weinstein notes that, despite benefiting from corporate welfare in the U.S., Exxon complains about paying high taxes, claiming that it threatens energy innovation research. Pat Garofalo at the Wonk Room notes that big corporations’ tax shelter practices similar to Exxon’s shift a $100 billion annual tax burden onto U.S. taxpayers. In fact, in 2008, the Government Accountability Office found that “two out of every three United States corporations paid no federal income taxes from 1998 through 2005.”

[JayhawkSD]

6. I think it may be illegal

I think writing on currency may be called "defacing currency" or "defacing government property" and against the law, so you may be advocating law breaking here.

[Scuba]

8. A minor act of civil disobedience. n/t

[notadmblnd]

9. So, ah, how many people do you know who have been punished with it?

Here is the law:

Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.


So, I would say, that as long as it is still useable, it is not illegal.

[piratefish08]

11. stealing $16 trillion from taxayers is against the law too.

and since they don't prosecute that, i'll take my chances with Inkie the Anarchist.


thanks for your patriotic defense of our ever weakening currency, though! :patriot:

[BiggJawn]

12. So how do those "counterfeit detector pens" get away with it? n/t

[LoZoccolo]

14. It's actually not, unless it's done for fraudulent purposes. n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. I'll tell that to my friend who was arrested and charged with defacing currency

[TheMightyFavog]

16. Just committed a bunch of federal offenses.

Crossed out "God" on the back of the bills in my wallet and replaced it with "cash" "money" "Jon Stewart" and "Stepehen Colbert" Also attached this message along with "Recall Scott Walker," "Donate me to the Colbert SuperPAC," and "Tax the rich" messages. I am so evil. I think I'll follow this up by not honking my horn the next time I pass someone on a two lane road (It's the law in Wisconsin!) making my own Limberger cheese (I do not possess a Master Cheesemaker's certification) and I will kiss my girldfiend on a train! (if I can find one in the Madison area.)