In the meantime maybe we can come up with ways to starve the beast. For example: What if folks who are still drawing a paycheck changed their withholding to hold back as much as possible? It would require some discipline to put the money away to pay your taxes, but if enough folks did that would it put pressure on the federal government?
And let’s take a look at the activities that generate federal taxes. Gasoline sales, for instance. I’d cut back on consumption to stick it to the federal government
That will never work. There are millions of idiots out there that don’t pay attention to how much is withheld, and gladly give the government an interest free loan, every year. These are the people that then giggle with glee when they get a huge refund, never understanding that it was their error and that they overpaid in the first place. They believe that the refund is like an “extra payday” or something. They actually make hypothetical plans about how they will spend next year’s refund, like buying a new fridge or paying for a vacation. They plan their own budgets based upon faulty understanding of how they could have saved themselves the higher tax bill in the first place.