The coming “Quiet Taxpayer Revolt of April 15, 2009”

The Collins Report ^ | March 11, 2009 | Kevin “Coach” Collins

[Centurion2000]

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[raptor29]

“The only way to have a tax revolt is to send letters to your legislators. Messing with taxes is a no-go.”

Naivete at its highest level. You really think a bunch of letters changes anything? Where have you been for the past 20 years? The only thing that would significantly change the dynamics of both taxation and the corresponding social engineering is a series of acts that our populace is not quite ready to embrace. But we are getting close. You keep sending those letters, though.

[Obadiah]

lol Not sure you needed a sarcasm tag.

[Mr. Jeeves]

The tax revolt isn’t going to come about from people not paying what they owe - it’s going to be people who have control of their productivity reducing it, and thereby reducing their taxable income. April, 2009 might not show much evidence of it, but I’ll bet quarterly estimated tax receipts for the 3rd and 4th quarter 2009 are going to be substantially down, freaking out the Obamoids just as they are ready to ramp up spending for all these new “stimuli”.

[Roccus]

Five day general strike (M-F). No earnings to tax, no spending to tax, no funds changing hands. DC would soil their shorts.

[concerned about politics]

Five day general strike (M-F). No earnings to tax, no spending to tax, no funds changing hands. DC would soil their shorts.

Dear IRS,

I am sorry to inform you that I will not be able to pay taxes owed April 15, but all is not lost.
I have paid these taxes: accounts receivable tax, building permit tax, CDL tax, cigarette tax, corporate income tax, dog licence tax, federal income tax, unemployment tax, gasoline tax, hunting licence tax, fishing licence tax, waterfowl stamp tax, inheritance tax, inventory tax, liquor tax, luxury tax, medicare tax, city, school and county property tax (up 33 percent last 4 years), real estate tax, social security tax, road usage tax, toll road tax, state and city sales tax, recreational vehicle tax, state franchise tax, state unemployment tax, telephone federal excise tax, telephone federal state and local surcharge tax, telephone minimum usage surcharge tax, telephone state and local tax, utility tax, vehicle licence registration tax, capitol gains tax, lease severance tax, oil and gas assessment tax, Colorado property tax, Texas, Colorado, Wyoming, Oklahoma and New Mexico sales tax, and many more that I can’t recall but I have run out of space and money.

P.S. I will make at least a partial payment as soon as I get my stimulus check.

(From Letter to the Editor - Ed Barnett, Wichita Falls)

[RebelTXRose]

Don’t they have ONLINE access to these? By the time it arrives in the mail, the numbers are very different...

[WakeUpAndVote]

Another way of going Gault?

[Roccus]

Another way of going Gault?

Not entirely, but it would give DC a taste of what would happen if we did.

[Harleydavidsonjim]

tim geither????????????

[jetson]

Just use the governments formula for figuring budgets to do your taxes. Lets say you wanted to make $100,000.00 last year but you only made $50,000.00. That would be a $50,000.00 loss so you owe no taxes. Simple.

[Just A Nobody]

What we are reading on this thread is precisely the reason we are where we are. No guts, no glory.

My parents began spewing the "silent majority" meme 30+ years ago: write letters, make phone calls, fund the organizations fighting the good fight, boycott products etc, etc, etc.

Granted I was too busy raising a family and going to my job, then 2 jobs, then 3 jobs to keep up with the increase of the socialist security theft, income tax, sales tax, city tax, state and county taxes to participate in the "silent revolt".

When will the sheeple WAKE UP?!?!?!

[erman]

Capital gains taxes? Who has a gain?

er.... uh .. me. I sold when McCain looked like the front runner for the Republicans. Have been in cash since mid 2008. Pretty much the same scenario that happened when Clinton took office.

Obama is a clown. He'll get nothing done except make the adults in the world pay for a teenage boy driving daddy's car all night after getting drunk.

We're going to have to pick up the mess, but we're still going to be on top of the pile. Unfortunately the pile is going to get deflated, inflated and somehow the property tax dilemma is going to have to be solved. In other words, if your property is now down 30%, is your tax bill adjusted down 30%.

Every single conservative needs to file an adjustment in those states that allow it. Possibly an attorney can file class action law suits in order to starve the beast some more. bwahahahahahaha... this is going to be fun.

My humble opinion on the stock market. Wait for Obama's plan on medical reform and the energy cap and trade policy to come out by the end of this year. That should just about kill the other two industries in our country that make money. Find the companies with the lowest long term debt to cash and see which ones interest you. That goes for banks as well.... Like Wells Fargo, Mellon Bank, JP morgan.....

Of course I could be wrong as the saying goes ,

[staytrue]

Actually, most have already made their withholding and quarterly payments in Jan 2009.

The shocker will come from dividend cuts.

Personally, I am retiring a few years early.

I should thank Obama for that. I should take it easy and enjoy life more.

[raptor29]

So true, all of it. I guarantee you that what the politicians and authorities fear most of all in this country is a strong revolt by the real American, the taxpayer, the person who has done what you and I have; worked their ass off for decades and did things ‘the right way’. What none of us recognize is how quickly we could get things changed by doing so, by a tax revolt that is backed up by the willingness to take it to the next level if need be. I do believe we’re getting there, however. Gonna take a little more time, but we’re getting there.

[silverleaf]

I think passivity is dangerous
Unless you have 10 years or more to get back to where you were, maybe

Conventional wisodm says just stick money in the stock market funds and let it ride

Some people who did this in 1932 did not see their stock portfolio value come back to what it was.... unitl 1954

Consider the coming storm, a DOW of 5000 or less, and reallocationg your funds into a safe haven (cash) and under your direct control to rollover or reallocate

The guy who parks his funds in cash/treasuries today to protect if for a while- may look 20% better than the guys who don’t, maybe for a long time.

just mho!

[gracesdad]

I didn’t say none got that far. But the article makes it sound like all these folks got a pass on confirmation. The fact is that if the majority hadn’t withdrawn, they would not have been confirmed.

[RobinOfKingston]

In answer to Zero's 'Yes we can' slogan, Americans should reply -

WHY SHOULD WE?

I need to get a button that says "... but not for HIM!"

[Just A Nobody]

I guarantee you that what the politicians and authorities fear most of all in this country is a strong revolt by the real American, the taxpayer...

Simply could not agree with you more!

What none of us recognize is how quickly we could get things changed by doing so...

Oh, I think there are a few of us that realize it, but it will take more than a couple of brave souls -- we need several (many) million to commit to taking the country back!

Gonna take a little more time, but we’re getting there.

Again, I agree - BUT - this is also allowing more time for "them" to organize against us. *sigh*

[raptor29]

“Them” can only do so much against all of us. They don’t have the resources to deal with all of us. Once we figure it out collectively, things will change quickly.