“The VAT Rebellion should make the Whiskey Rebellion look like a polite walk in the park.”
I seriously doubt that anybody now a days will institute any sort of armed rebellion against the Feds. It would be cut down before it even got past the talking stage (just look at the MI militia for a good current example). More than likely you’ll see what happens in most third world counties start happening here which is a thriving black market and massive tax avoidance. That in turn will be used as an excuse to implement even more control by the feds (who are kind of front running this with the new 1099 requirement in the healthcare bill that will bury small businesses in paper work).
I think that Greece is a good example of where we are heading, massively entitled public servants (1/3 of the Greek economy) and welfare recipients against an ever shrinking, taxed to death, productive class. Also, all these people that think we’ll go John Galt alla Ayn Rand should look at what’s happening there. It’s not the producers that will bring the system to a halt but all the leeches of society rioting when their freebies have been cut off and destroying what little productive capacity they have left in one big temper tantrum.
good analysis
I think we’re well on our way there already