What do you call that? The appeal to pusillanimity?
They don't have enough fellers to go around, if every productive taxpayer just refused.
It is not practical to expect that, however, so I advocate legal means. Do the right thing. Homeschool the kids, quit the second job, cut the income tax payment. Then when you realize the sky doesn't fall when you live on less money, cut back more until you don't make enough to have to pay income tax at all.
That's the safe and legal way to deprive the government of the only thing that matters to it. The only thing that gets their attention. The only thing it needs to function. Your financial support. Money.
Start planning, and put your representatives on notice. Do it as publicly as you can, to encourage others and to put the fear where it belongs: in the bloodsucking political class.
We don't need a million march. A million right-thinking, fed up, self-reliant Americans could do this from home.
“We don’t need a million march. A million right-thinking, fed up, self-reliant Americans could do this from home.”
I hope you’re right because we’ve been led by the nose for too long. We’ve become soft in the USA. Most are too lazy to even vote let alone go to a town hall meeting, or call or write Congress, or God forbid express our right to peaceful assembly on the street. They divide and conquer us.
The media leads us around by the nose with stories about royal babies in England and hyped crime stories, and covering for the real criminals in DC. They kept us saturated for a month with Michael Jackson (so his promoters could sell his crap), just as Gabby Giffords, Boston Marathon, Zimmerman and Newtown (so gun grabbers and fearmongers have more impact), while the political elite rig the game and shaft us behind the scenes. In public they tell us a concocted but different story how they oppose all that makes us angry.
My friend, you are engaging in magical thinking. FedGov doesn't need our "money" - they can print their own. All they need is for foolish people to continue serving in the military which acts as international muscle to enforce the dollar standard.
This house of cards would fall fast (and will eventually do so) when the dollar standard collapses. Ain't no amount of tax receipt deficits gonna effect the octopus. Even today, freshly rolled bennie bux are a significant portion of the budget.
Consider our economy today - no one actually "works" in a productive field. People are either marginally employed, on some kind of benefit, or work in the public sector, which is actually another form of welfare.
So, even today, the whole thing operates on phantom money that recipients quickly exchange for real assets. That is, unless they are forced to re-cycle dollars to purchase treasuries, which is what currently impose on the Saudis & Chinese.
When this cycle is eventually broken, all the chickens will be coming home to roost.