They absolutely need taxes. No country World Bank or IMF is going to give a loan without a tax base. If you keep printing money you devalue the currency and it becomes shit then no one gives you loans. Not paying taxes would fuck up the federal gov't that is why they have the IRS.
You had better believe that if you don't pay your taxes, they will print the money to buy the bullets that police will use to shoot you. People don't pay taxes because they want to. People pay taxes because they don't want to be locked in a cage or murdered for refusing tribute.
IMF may refuse a loan in the face of mass tax protest, IRS goes out and puts a few high profile evaders behind bars or fills them with lead, and the rest will do what they need to do and, boom, tax revenue flows again.
Comply or die is the true nature of government, from which all motivation of the ruled comes from.
I haven't been on anybody's payroll for 11 years, but I can't imagine that going to your HR department and changing your withholding choices to "pay no taxes" would go over very well.
And I'm a big believer in "Starve the Beast", but you're correct about the impracticality.
That said, the same people who print our money also control the IMF. Sound money went out the door long ago and I haven't seen a bond vigilante in more than a decade.
They absolutely need taxes. No country World Bank or IMF is going to give a loan without a tax base. If you keep printing money you devalue the currency and it becomes shit then no one gives you loans. Not paying taxes would fuck up the federal gov't that is why they have the IRS.
You had better believe that if you don't pay your taxes, they will print the money to buy the bullets that police will use to shoot you. People don't pay taxes because they want to. People pay taxes because they don't want to be locked in a cage or murdered for refusing tribute.
IMF may refuse a loan in the face of mass tax protest, IRS goes out and puts a few high profile evaders behind bars or fills them with lead, and the rest will do what they need to do and, boom, tax revenue flows again.
Comply or die is the true nature of government, from which all motivation of the ruled comes from.
I haven't been on anybody's payroll for 11 years, but I can't imagine that going to your HR department and changing your withholding choices to "pay no taxes" would go over very well.
And I'm a big believer in "Starve the Beast", but you're correct about the impracticality.
That said, the same people who print our money also control the IMF. Sound money went out the door long ago and I haven't seen a bond vigilante in more than a decade.
Glad the founders didn't pay them....
Fortunately i print bullets