War tax resistance started long before the internet — in people’s living rooms, where you had to know someone who was already doing it in order to get involved. […] Last spring, Jacoby, who had never been a tax resister before, took over for an older woman who ran the group for 40 years.
In extreme cases, tax protesters could face wage garnishment, property seizures or prison time, though criminal prosecutions are rare, according to University of Chicago law professor David Weisbach. “They don’t often do that, but they can. And so it’s a form of civil disobedience that comes with all the consequences of civil disobedience, which is that you are subject to legal sanctions, and they can be quite severe,” Weisbach said. “It’s certainly one way of protesting, but it’s a risky way, and it could be a very, very costly way.”
Weisbach said the tax protest movement isn’t necessarily about making a dent in the federal budget. “The whole point of civil disobedience is to change people’s views about the matter,” he said. “Martin Luther King, that’s what he did. They march on a bridge, they break the law, the law was unjust, and they changed people’s views about race. But did he directly change a law? Not so much. He changed people’s views, which caused laws to change.”
(Posting here not because I think it’s funny, but because it seems like satire exploring extremes of protest that aren’t mutual aid and on such overground groups that have been around for so long. Satirical actions need not be reprehensible.)
The older I get the more I tend to favor anarchy. It seems preferable to the current system.
Ya because you are old enough to have experienced what you wanted to experience and have enough supplies to probably do fine if society collapses.
I would know, I’m an old man who is thinking the exact same thing. Just restocked on gas filters and MREs.
Just take care not to mistake rugged individualism for anarchism!
YOU ARE NOT MY SUPERVISOR
Palantir has entered the chat, scraped it for data, and will send ICE to murder these people under NSPM-7.
so technical question are they just maxxing their exemptions on their W4 or are they skipping their required estimated payments? Weisbach is correct, they could be punished, but like, unless the government decides to make an example it’s going to just be a fee. that’s how the government punishes “tax cheats”, unless they are high profile, egregious (high dollar value, like hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars in taxes owed), intransigent, and encouraging others to also cheat (see wesley snipes)
obligatory boilerplate this is neither tax nor legal advice you may not rely upon this for planning or blah blah i think i’m supposed to mention circular 230 it’s been a while
I would be worried about not paying anything and making it obvious. They collected everyone’s info, built up databases, and now have a secret police force that has a budget more than the Ukrainian military. If you pay very little they will say your smart and maybe make you president, if you refuse entirely they will say your anti-American
