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Let it be known that I am not an anarchist, a terrorist, or anything of that sort. I am a seventeen year old equivalent of a high school dropout. I do not feel I am highly educated, as this is just a mere blunt observation, and an opinion.

It seems to me as the United States is slowly becoming comparable to communistic and dictatorship enemies of the past by favoring the rich few over the people themselves. While people like you and I, hard working citizens doing what we can to get by struggle to make ends meet, the government is taking money out of our paychecks via taxes for the simple purpose of telling you how to live you're lives while not having to abide by the very laws they created. I understand it is within the human nature to crave a sense of common morality and goals, and that some laws are needed to protect our people but it's getting out of hand. I am not implying in anyway that that a government is bad, but tax breaks for the rich while raising taxes for lower to middle class his ridiculous. The rich are getting so rich, that they have to give money away. Why do you think richest celebrities, businessmen, and congressman donate such large portions of money to charities? It may be good intentions, or it may be that they do it so they can right it off on they're taxes. For example, if you have a One Hundred Million plus industry, and you give two million to a charity, you get a tax break and you get to write it off on taxes. A man known as “Joe Plumber” in an interview after his barrage of questions on Barack Obama's stand on taxes implied loosely that he could not live off two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year off of taxes, even though he was paying roughly nine hundred dollars in taxes a year after write offs. If you ask me, thats well above the poverty line.

Now that I have stated this theoretical problem, here is my opinion on a solution. Instead of electing someone who claims they will fight for you're values, we protest peacefully. We cannot put our hopes into one man, sometimes you have to do it yourself in an intellectually organized peaceful manner and do it by they're rules. This would be no easy task, it would take over seventy-five percent of the nation to be accomplished, and would take many supporters that truly believed it was right. I believe in order to reverse these actions, almost every U.S. Citizen from below the poverty line to upper middle class stopped paying their taxes for a long enough period of time to make the government realize that the people have had enough of the dictatorship like restrictions on our daily lives while taking our money at the same time. Normally if you didn't pay your taxes you'd go to jail, but if seventy five percent of 309488000 people stopped paying their taxes that the government would be able to even afford to get all of us?

I'm not saying to stop paying taxes forever and always. But as a form of protest to show the government where their pay-checks come from. Its kinda ridiculous that GE as a whole company pays less in taxes than a single carpenter that makes 10.50 an hour.