The recent appointments by President Trump of Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State, John Bolton as National Security Advisor, and Gina Haspel as CIA director clearly indicates the Military Industrial Complex wants even more ramped up war. The defense budget recently signed in is over $700 billion. President Trump renewed the NDAA in December 2017.
27% of the eligible voters voted for Trump in 2016. 28% voted for Hillary Clinton. 46.9% did not think either candidate was worth voting for. A huge amount of the American public are aware they have no say in how Washington conducts policy. The Trump appointees are unelected. Those few people who voted for Trump were assuming he would not implement the neo-conservatism of his predecessors Bush and Obama, yet this is what has happened.
Voting does not matter. The electors selected Trump anyway. Hillary Clinton as president would be just as unthinkable and horrific as Trump is.
We must take direct action now by cutting our own taxes and withdrawing funds from the Military Industrial Complex ourselves. Each of us must work on our own strategies we see fit.
Personally, I am leaving my career in three years, as I am around retirement age and saved up quite a lot over 32 years. I'm a Bitcoin enthusiast and I will work on Bitcoin programming projects in three years. I have structured my investing to diversify among tax avoidance strategies, some of which I never tell anyone. But my current federal tax bracket is 28%. I am disgusted with how many thousands of dollars is being used to fund order followers in the middle east, murdering civilians.
Pictured below is Trump's first murder victim, Nawar Al-Awlaki, of Yemen, the week of Trump's inauguration.
I will bring that federal tax rate way down in three years so that the total dollar amount stolen by the federal government will be cut in less than half of what I currently am extorted. If everyone did the same thing the federal government will have to cut expenditures, stop paying employees, furlough employees, cut a lot of contracts (such as defense contracts).
I've brought my combined state and federal tax rate down under 10% a few times, legally for a few years. I suggest you do everything in your power to also bring down your taxes. I suggest to young people load up on international stocks. Over time your effective tax rate becomes lower as your regular job's salary increases because when you realize long term gains, the tax rate on those gains is 15% but you find your income bracket at a higher tax rate. If you are already in a high tax bracket, load up on bitcoin and international stocks and hold for the long term (at least twelve months is long term).
The only way we can stop the beast is to starve it.