It wouldn't make any difference to federal governments. The money supply is fake --infinitely more will be printed or borrowed since it doesn't have to be backed by anything physical like gold. As it stands now, the debt cannot be repaid, so what is a little more "quantative easing"?
Playing by the rules is for the good guys. If everyone stops paying, governments will look at garnishing wages in mass. Maybe if we pushed back on everything (licenses, tax payments, permits, and more) simultaneously we could hurt the beast - but it would have to be decentralized (no leader to jail) and so widespread that enforcement was impossible.
Stop dooming, its a powerful message regardless of its potency. We are essentially telling the government they no longer represent our interests, and we are no longer willing participants in this charade.
He brings up good points, though, and they need to be disucssed. I'm all for a tax strike, but we have to come up with a real plan. Some patriot who works 9-5 can't just say, "I'm not paying taxes anymore," unless he wants to quit and not have a job.
The optics of it all are incredibly tricky. I think we can do it, but the coordination needs to be on point and massive. If there is no coordination, the IRS and their henchman are just going to pick people off.
To start, we'd need a hundred thousand or more conservative businesses to commit to both not paying taxes and not witholding anything from their employees's checks. But, then what happens when banks stop processing payments for those businesses? You'd then either need a network of conservative banks on board (credit unions?) or a large scale switch to crypto.
Let them print all they "need" and stop bothering us with taxes.
If we can get paid in Bitcoin (decentralized with no leader, finite supply to resist inflation -- though very volatile right now) then it's harder for govt to reach.
It wouldn't make any difference to federal governments. The money supply is fake --infinitely more will be printed or borrowed since it doesn't have to be backed by anything physical like gold. As it stands now, the debt cannot be repaid, so what is a little more "quantative easing"?
Playing by the rules is for the good guys. If everyone stops paying, governments will look at garnishing wages in mass. Maybe if we pushed back on everything (licenses, tax payments, permits, and more) simultaneously we could hurt the beast - but it would have to be decentralized (no leader to jail) and so widespread that enforcement was impossible.
Stop dooming, its a powerful message regardless of its potency. We are essentially telling the government they no longer represent our interests, and we are no longer willing participants in this charade.
He brings up good points, though, and they need to be disucssed. I'm all for a tax strike, but we have to come up with a real plan. Some patriot who works 9-5 can't just say, "I'm not paying taxes anymore," unless he wants to quit and not have a job.
The optics of it all are incredibly tricky. I think we can do it, but the coordination needs to be on point and massive. If there is no coordination, the IRS and their henchman are just going to pick people off.
To start, we'd need a hundred thousand or more conservative businesses to commit to both not paying taxes and not witholding anything from their employees's checks. But, then what happens when banks stop processing payments for those businesses? You'd then either need a network of conservative banks on board (credit unions?) or a large scale switch to crypto.
See my comment above, and yes I have a nine to five job.
Let them print all they "need" and stop bothering us with taxes.
If we can get paid in Bitcoin (decentralized with no leader, finite supply to resist inflation -- though very volatile right now) then it's harder for govt to reach.