It is entirely possible to live without paying taxes for religious reasons. The trick is to intentionally earn less than the threshold to pay taxes, which is k

It is entirely possible to live without paying taxes for religious reasons. The trick is to intentionally earn less than the threshold to pay taxes, which is known as “tax resistance”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_resistance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_resistance Notable examples include Dorothy Day (recently canonized), Aamon Hennacy, and (mostly symbolically), Henry Thoreau. In a Christian context, a life of willful simplicity spent in service to the dispossessed is explicitly encouraged as virtuous in many many places.