I don't have anything to add to the conversation, but wanted to say that I like 95% of your posts and opinions. You have a good head on your shoulders.
Tom B has a point. You want to be as self righteous as american revolutionist ? Don't use any of the service this government provides. As long as you use government service and not paying any tax, you are what Tom B said.
I've started building a system of tunnels to avoid using government roads. I tried using a helicopter at first but the neighbors got pissed and called the cops. (also, using the McDonalds drive-thru was a real bitch.) When the cops came I told them I didn't want to use their services, and had hired my own security force to settle the dispute. They took umbrage and shot my dog. I tried suing the state apparatchiks in a non-state court, but alas...
+1 Many don't file and certainly don't pay any tax. When you figure in their food stamps, housing allowance and free utilities it starts looking like East Germany in the 70s..a sort of warped socialism.
my point - and this is all planned within a completely defunct taxing system in this country. middle class is the ones under attack with the atrocious tax system. There is also a fast growing number of middle class and above net worth American non-filers, who no longer want to fund their central banker manipulated government. Why do you think there are some pushing for national sales taxes in recent talking points? ;-)
Why are you so angry? You seem to be mentally unbalanced. BTW, the tea tax revolt was a precursor to the US declaration of independence from the UK. Are you, and the other people who fail to pay federal income taxes owed planning on seceding from the US?
if the central bank did not do what it did right now your home would be worthless. if you don't like what the central bank does then you want more rules in the business world. you think the central bank does this for fun?
As a taxpayer, I understand your sentiment. On the other hand, that's the kind of logic that was used by the Communists against dissidents: "Who gave you that shirt that is on your back? Who grew the beets for your borscht that you ate for supper? I will tell you who: loyal Soviets! And now, you spit in the face of your motherland, and you spit in the face of the very people who feed and cloth you through their labor. You are a parasite. You wear the clothes and eat the food of the Soviets, but you try to destroy your motherland from within." So, from my perspective, if you want to fight the system though non-violent means, well, then more power to you. Heck, even if you use violent means, I might give you a pass because the system has gone from untenable to just plain abusive. Personally, I don't have the guts not to file a return, and not to pay the Feds. But the reality, for me, is that I have the income and educational accreditation that I am fairly confident that the Feds will put me in prison if I don't pay whatever they demand from me. So, I will continue to pay, but applaud those who do not since someone has to break this system because the current path is destroying our nation. You know what they said about the American Revolution: One-third of the colonists were loyal to the King, one-third were neutral or impartial, and one-third were the Revolutionaries.