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The most boring civil disobediance possible.
Accountants of the world, embezzle…
To all the accountants and bookkeepers in all the world: I have a challenge for you.
Go ahead and pay all the taxes of your employers according to the ‘wealth tax’ proposed by Elizabeth Warren… Just don’t tell them and see if they notice.
You can do it. Your employer doesn’t want to know the details, that’s why they hired an accountant or bookkeeper to begin with. So let us try a grand experiment: instead of making things up, follow the rules according to what is proposed by Professor Senator Elizabeth Warren…
… and let us see if anybody misses it.
Seriously, you and I both know that tax dodging is a game that has nothing to do with hurt or want, but with ego and pride. What have you got to lose? Many of you are likely already skirting the thin edge of laws and ethics with your efforts in dodging taxes (on their behalf). All I’m asking is to use your creativity in the other direction: pay taxes and test the theory that the rich really care, or notice, all that much.
Let me backup and explain my thinking. Back in 2012, when Mitt Romney was running for the office of President of the United States and claiming the United States needed yet another tax cut for the wealthy he was asked…
