Dang it! I was going to send this e-mail earlier, before I had heard anyone
else saying this. Well, now someone else someone with a pretty darn good
record of predicting stuff is saying it. Oh well.
In short, I think very soon you will see a national tax revolt. Now, I wish
that it would happen as a result of millions of people finding out they don
t actually OWE federal income taxes. I'd settle for some philosophical-based
revolt, like the American Revolution, where they oppose being robbed on
principle. But I'm afraid it will be simpler even than that: people will be
running out of money (or what passes for money these days), and the
government will be too stupid to reduce its extortionist practices in fact
it will try to steal much MORE from people (especially with Barack Ostalin
in office), because "government" never thinks that it should do with less.
And then good old-fashioned desperation will kick in, and people will decide
that buying food is more important than sending money to the IRS. And
non-compliance or at least, what people THINK is non-compliance (since
they don't owe all the taxes they think they do) has a self-accelerating
effect. If a million people do it, and ten million other people HEAR about
it, then 11 million people will be doing it, and so on. There is safety in
numbers, especially when it comes to disobeying tyrants. As the level of
disobedience rises, the probability of any given person getting into trouble
for it drops. The feds know this, which is why they have desperately tried
to keep secret the falling enforcement statistics of the IRS (as the
Syracuse TRAC studies show), while proclaiming from the rooftops what
thuggery they do manage to pull off. They are desperate to keep everyone
scared, and to a large extent, they have succeeded. But when people really
start to feel the hurt of the coming economic collapse, they won't really
care what the IRS threatens to do any more.
Again, this isn't even how I wished things would go. I'd rather people knew
the truth, legal and philosophical, and opposed the federal extortion racket
on those grounds. But they'll probably just do it out of simple necessity.
However, one bright side might be that more people might be open to HEARING
about the federal "income tax" fraud, once they really start feeling the
pain of it. And I'm betting when April 15th rolls around, there will be
plenty of financial pain to go around.
Larken Rose
http://www.kickingthedragon.com
P.S. Here is that other guy predicting tax revolts, among other things:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46MEqEgdLTg
