Boycott US
Overview:
The community dedicated to boycotting the US until they stop fascism, restore full democracy and start following international law.
Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.
America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.
America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.
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Its USA brainwashing, they feel they are fighting the "enemy" by not paying tax. Even though that extra take home pay ends up going to health care, or car expenses due to lack of transit etc.
It comes from the idea that our government is so inherently corrupt that they can't be trusted to do anything correctly with our money, so people would rather keep their money and spend it on themselves directly.
And I have to say these people are justified, our government doesn't spend our money on worthwhile things.
I think the systems where people pay higher taxes usually work better, tho.
We don't even need to raise taxes. All the money we need for social services is in the military budget that hasn't passed a successful audit this century.
Yeah, we have literally all the money we need to pay for all our social services.
We spend as much as the next 7 largest militaries COMBINED.
It's such a massive grift, and we can't touch the military budget because it's the only form of welfare that works and tons of Americans NEED it.
I'd be fine with our military expenditures if we used them for civil engineering in peacetime... And I guess we would have to stop those pesky undeclared wars as a happy knock on effect.
we spend more on healthcare than the military last i checked (but again, no audit on DoD spending so...)
Even so, that's ~800 billion that could be used for social services and improving lives.
Also if we're so skint that we can't afford to take care of the basics...how did we find all that ICE money? After a massive revenue cut, also!