When has there not been a tax revolt of some sorts?
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:57 AM, RFTech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > <http://webmail.semo.net/mailman.cgi?NOFRAMES=TRUE&BACKGROUND=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2ekickingthedragon%2ecom> > > > > P.S. Here is that other guy predicting tax revolts, among other things: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46MEqEgdLTg > <http://webmail.semo.net/mailman.cgi?NOFRAMES=TRUE&BACKGROUND=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2eyoutube%2ecom%2fwatch%3fv%3d46MEqEgdLTg> > > > >
