Originally posted by ConSigCor:
The best thing that could and should happen, is what occurred over 200 hundred years ago when the colonists told the government "hell no" and refused to pay their taxes. Rather than mumble and grumble we should be doing everything possible to monkey wrench their system and bring it down. Stop paying the plantation owners to enslave you. Pull all your money out of their system so they can not confiscate it.
Remember too...when the original tyrants began their reprisals against the colonists for their refusal to "pay their fair share"; the colonists returned the favor by dragging judges and tax collectors into the street and beating the shit out of them. A few court houses and government buildings burned to the ground as well.
Friend you are 100% correct the best thing that could happen would be for a large percentage of the People to “Just Say No” and refuse to pay their taxes. But there is a very large problem with not paying your taxes and that problem is the reason I started my Site that is in my Signature.
And that Problem is called “Withholding” the Government takes our money before we even get it in our pay check, so even if we wanted to protest by not paying Income Tax, we can't really do it. There is only one way that the regular working man or woman can protest by not paying Income Tax and that is by claiming maximum allowances on their W-4. The biggest problem with doing this is the employer may not want to let you do it.
I built USA Strike in an attempt to promote the idea of a National Strike, which I believed and still do would be the best way of peacefully fighting the Government, since if a person doesn't work they don't earn any income so they don't pay any income tax. 10% of Zero Income equals Zero and 35% of zero Income still equals zero.
Collecting Taxes in the late 18th Century was a hole lot different then collecting taxes in the beginning of the 21st Century.
So while your idea would be great if it could be accomplished it just isn't really feasible.
