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Originally posted by ironweed
Tax time can be stressful.
If I were a fascist demagogue, I would organize my putsch for right around April 15. My cadre of bitter-lawyer stormtroopers would sweep all before them and establish control over every major metropolitan center within 24 hours.
Then I would hand out the pills, coke and 'shrooms and let them get twisted for a few days while I consolidate my control with more reliable troops, like say mortgage brokers.
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I think that they keep withholding rates high in order to counter this very notion. Most of the foot-soldier minions you would rely on are getting refunds around that time, and probably out getting drunk with them.
They are very smart. They are good with the bread and the circuses.
