I’m a part-time tax preparer and so while I can’t endorse your ideas I do find them appealing, and certainly better than advising people to break the law!
Another point occurs to me now, you can be penalized for not having enough money withheld, or not paying enough estimated tax throughout the year. This happened to me several years ago.
I agree totally, all these people saying change your exemptions and don’t pay are missing the fact that the govt. just prints money and moves numbers on a huge scale. Who cares if theirs is withheld for a year. It’s pointless and can only result in fines and interest, counterproductive to the goal of depriving them revenue.
All I am saying is inundate them with paperwork that they have to painstakingly process to the point that the agencies crippling becomes newsworthy. Ask for the automatic extension, but estimate wisely and pay along with that request. Later, file, accurately. Later, amend, for a simple $20. All handwritten with stray marks, oddly formed digits, anything to befuddle the automatic processing equipment.
That doesn’t mean you can’t use turbotax or whatever. Just copy if by hand and mail it in at the end.
Feel free to discuss my idea with anyone, since you cannot endorse such a thing of course but yet it may be an interesting idea. :^)
USPS would make another simple example of a newsworthy target. Postage due for trivial amounts, and remail junk mail to yourself. (Don’t tear it up, drop it in a blue box near work..... Repeat as needed. ) Imagine a snarled USPS, again, newsworthy.
A consumer boycott of this Christmas is another idea I’ve heard.
If people can’t start performing such simple civil disobedience’s then they deserve whatever becomes of the economy. Support the fiscal cliff. Put your money where your mouth is conservatives. Really I have little faith such things can happen, at least not until the TV stops working.