...what are they gonna do? Send angry threatening letters? f**k 'em, let 'em!
Well no, they will garnish/confiscate your wages, crash your bank, stock and retirement accounts and make just going to the grocery store near impossible unless you are paid in cash. And 30 million people won't cause a collapse - all it will do is just give them an excuse to confiscate more wealth ( taxes + penalties ) directly from Savings or IRAs... very few of them will have been able to liquidate all of their accounts or get jobs on a cash basis. SO the govt still gets to report it got its paper, they got to (legally) harass and jail even more bitter clingers with the veneer of justice ( a veneer a great deal of the public will respect) and nothing actually bad happens to FEDGOV....they get to do PR and proaganda on the "Tax Terrorists" who "won't pay their fair share"
And if you do go to jail - it is very likely you will starve to death in your cell. No one is going to come in there looking for people to release after the collapse. They won't be keeping you in the Bastille.
Even if all 30 million managed to prevent FEDGOV from getting their property ... no worries. they will just print it. Yes this moves the time clock up marginally (months or maybe as much as a few years) . But that time would have been better spent ( IMO ) preparing and learning .. Not to mention the high costs of a personal visit to collect you taxes with a SWAT team. A Swat team they can't afford to send after the collapse - which will come, tax revolt or no. I just don't see it as being an effective tactic.
40% of FedGOV revenue comes from income taxes. Even if the 30 Million largest payers went absent and effectively prevented FEDGOV from seizing or selling any of their wealth or assets and income tax collection went to zero--, it would cause a tax shortfall of at most 1 Trillion. -- or about an average 1 year deficit under the Obama administration. It could therefore, at best and under ideal conditions advance the timetable about a year for each year of the Tax Strike - again assuming the 30 Million can keep earning what they were earning somehow.
Of course the payroll taxes and withholding would continue --even if the fed isn't taking directly from your wages to pay fines and that accounts for another 40% of what the government collects. .. and those same 30 Million are the ones we need ready to endure and fight when the real collapse comes. IN reality some Corporations might participate, and the biggest earners would be targeted and loose nearly everything they owned on paper and that could be used to ameliorate some of the short fall .. But your effect is going to be on that order - 1 Trillion. Its not enough to collapse anything immediately , the govt would cover it up so markets weren't affected, and in the end it only marginally advances the schedule.
Ann calls it the last non-violent option, but really its as pointless as all of the other non-violent options. This end in war. There is no other way at this point. So the question is, do you engage in a tactic that is unlikely to yield net positive results, or do you prepare for the conflict that you know is coming.