there are ways not to get taxed. businesses know about them. accountants know about them.

I prefer being as non-beholden as I can to a political state I find distasteful. In theory I don't mind paying some taxes - for roads, welfare, civil servants to do their job. What I refuse to pay for? wars, subsidies to rich corporations, inflated salaries for congressmen.

What if... think about the reality here... what if 10k people got together and refused to pay taxes? It's been done. There used to be a tax on phone bills, hidden in the fees, that was a war tax from the 1950s.

A group of us got together and refused to pay that tax. Know what? Nothing ever happened to us. Maybe they couldn't be bothered as we were too small fry, or in a way, conscientious objectors. maybe they knew the tax was bogus, something ATT was getting rich off of, and wanted to keep it out of the courts.

What I am saying here is we pay taxes because we assume that we will get in trouble. I'm just throwing a wrench in the thought works. Because we all have a choice about the numbers we put on that W-4 form. We all have a choice every April.

We are so indoctrinated by the system to think that the only choice is to pay taxes. And while not paying taxes may be risky, it is still - an option.