Are you against the Fed? Are you against the U.S. government wars and empire? Are you against regulations? Are you against licensing laws? Are you against drug prohibition laws? Are you against government bailouts? Are you against gun control?
Do you still pay your taxes? If you do, then you are part of the problem. Nothing will change until we stop giving them our wealth.
Most people don’t pay taxes. Their employers and the stores where they shop pay taxes.
I tend to hand over my wallet when a robber is brandishing a gun.
In the U.S., you can claim “dependents”, which reduces the amount of taxes you pay. At the end of the year, you are welcome to not file and not pay any extra taxes. If you are not working for another company, you are also welcome to not pay. Also if you have a company, you are welcome to not collect taxes for the government.
First of all, they are not threatening to kill you. They are threatening to throw you in a cage.
Second of all, if enough people stopped paying, what do you think they would do?
I’m not stupid enough to think they would actually kill me.
But living in a cage ranks pretty high on my list of things I don’t want to happen, right below being executed.
I agree with you whole heartedly on the problem, But how you going to get enough people to take that first step? In other words, I’ll go second…
I understand the religion of government is harder for people to break than the religion in god. A full 10% of the U.S. population is non-religious, in terms of god. Maybe 1% are non-religious in terms of the state, if that. Still, that would be 3 million people. Now, if even 20,000 would stop paying taxes, stop getting licenses, stop paying traffic tickets, stop collecting taxes if a business owner, well, I think that would be enough. We will see I guess. But that is the only way things will change. To stop being afraid.
I am almost positive that a lot more than 20,000 people refuse to pay their income taxes. In fact, I believe the number of “tax resistors” in the U.S. numbers into the millions. This would be an easy google, imo.
I would love to see it.
Vermont, Wyoming, North Dakota all have populations of less then 650,000. Get this 1% against the State to move there and force the State to secede and to dismantle itself.
Then … google it?
Well that makes it all better, then!
I avoid paying any that are easy to avoid paying. With that being said I still pay my income tax, tax on items I buy in stores(normally I shop online to avoid paying sales tax which is soon not going to be an option) property tax, I get my car inspected and pay taxes on it, and the list goes on. There isn’t much one can do in the name of liberty while living inside a jail ceil.
You don’t think there is a difference between being in a jail cell or being dead?
And as a result, nothing will change.
I see no difference between violating my rights and violating my rights.
Things will change but they will change in a negitive way. The more power and influence the government gains over individuals lives the more popular ideas such as the one you propose will become (this is already happening). If each and every anarcho-capitalist would today refuse to pay their taxes the effect would go almost unnoticed. If the same anarcho-capitalists continued to spread their ideology and introduce others to their beliefs then maybe one day your proposal would be many times more effective.
How long until your jail sentence begins? You’ll write us letters from the inside, right?
Oh, and don’t drop the soap.
Me, I’ll be proselytizing for our cause. It’s easier to do when you’re not in a cage.
I think his point is that if everyone stopped doing it, there wouldn’t be enough cages to put people in.
Good luck Spidey!
Did you watch Adventures in Legal Land with Marc Stephens on Youtube?
Also this:
http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071019/FRONTPAGE/710190306
Charlie Lynch would also Like to have a word with you.