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Try "non-participating" by not paying taxes....

• msandford 12y ago
  It's really too bad that not paying your taxes isn't thought of as a valid way to voice your opposition to what's going on in Washington. I realize why it's that way, but it's a real bummer to me. Not because I'm a greedy bastard who doesn't want to pay a dime, but because elections aren't that great of a feedback mechanism now that career politicians and parties and etc have developed into neigh unstoppable powers that put people into office. It seemingly has been in the past, but for some reason isn't now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_resistance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_resistance
• anon-24681012 12y ago
  As an individual, you are correct. But what do you think would happen if 100,000 people made a public commitment online to report their taxes but not pay them? What about 500K? A million? Remember: using the net, it would be possible not to disclose any of those people until all of them made the commitment. Would the government throw all of those people out on the street? Put them all in jail? Because this is where we're headed. I doubt you'll see mass protests about the NSA tracking cell phones, but at some point in the next 50 years the tax burden will become high enough that people will openly revolt. Future generations will protest the idea that the majority of their taxes are going for debt service on money borrowed by people who aren't even still alive. That's a great "taxation without representation" argument. Non-participation is always a matter of degree. As the government closes its fist, more and more people will slip through, either openly or not.