It is possible to “revolt” quietly and for all intent and purpose - legally. Just become independent of government and have a good tax preparer/accountant.

I may be one of the “little people” but I’m not stupid and can outwit the “ruling class” any day.

Tax revolts are nothing more than an unworkable, ass-backwards attempt to change the status quo. It’s a little like people reelecting a person to Congress after that person did nothing but sell them down the river for the previous two, or six, years, then whining about continuing to be sold out and proposing some nonsensical revolt as a response. You want change, then elect people who actually represent you. Correct the problem where it begins. The rest is just a reactionary pipe dream. While you’re at it, you might look into how government is organized … and actually functions on a day-to-day basis.

HR, keep drinking the Kool-aid; whatever gets you thru the day. Taxes are spent by APPOINTED people; elected people are not involved in it at all. No one will send the goon squad or the IRS after a concerted, stalwart POPULATION that resists our government’s tyranny. People that think and act like you do make it easy, easy, easy for the government to abuse their power. A tax revolt is precisely that: a revolt. And it’s about time. You will also be VERY surprised to find out that many law enforcement and military personnel will support and agree with any kind of revolt against the tyranny this government has become. We don’t need “less” government; regulation is necessary. We need a government that answers to the people; radical surgery gets rid of cancer.

Thoreau never impressed me, either. I suspect the story of his tax revolt was taught to us in the public elementary school curriculum solely for the purpose of ingraining in our little minds the notion of tax revolts as the way preferred by the rulers for commoners to express dissatisfaction, something much more to the liking of the wealthy power elite than us actually voting for our own candidates who would be more likely to enact policies that we commoners would support to begin with.

I enjoy having the services that government provides me with just under half of the income taxes I pay to it. I like big government, too, really big, one which is big enough to provide badly needed services to itself, the people. I also am a strong supporter of a truly progressive income tax, for reimplementation of the tax brackets that existed before Reagan was ELECTED … and elected by working people.

Let’s see now, just what would happen in the unlikely event of a real tax revolt. First, the IRS would come down on us, then the military, both only doing their jobs. Meanwhile, services to the needy would decline, or be stopped entirely, infrastructure maintenance would come to a nearly-complete halt. Small towns, dependent in large part on federal government grants for services like water and sewage treatment would suffer … as would large metropolitan areas. And, the wars, or whatever policy caused the revolt, would continue.

Already I can hear hollering about just refusing to pay the 50-plus percent that goes to the war departments, and there are more than one of them here. Same result. Besides, once you’ve paid any taxes, how they’re spent is beyond your control. That’s left by the Constitution up to your ELECTED officials.

For me the whole notion of tax revolts is a total exercise in futility. A total waste of time, time that could be better spent actually thinking for ourselves, and voting accordingly, with write-in candidates and numerous runoff elections, if need be. Instead, most of the half of us eligible who still vote will go to the polls and choose among identical corporate candidates, their “party” affiliation notwithstanding.

Taking charge of this country by us commoners – for the first time, since “take BACK our country” is a sickeningly misleading phrase – doesn’t take an organized effort. No organization is required at all. People, on an individual basis, can mark their ballots, writing in the name if need be, for those they believe will truly represent their interests, whoever those people may be. It doesn’t matter if doing so results in the media, as well as those who benefit from the current system, dutifully branding the outcome a undemocratic, as chaos, or anarchy, or worse. It doesn’t matter if doing so spells doom for the money-dominated “party” organizations that have ruled this country from the beginning, for the benefit of the rich and powerful. What would matter is that the people would have spoken, would have, finally, taken a mighty step toward taking charge in a country that claims to have a government that is of, by, and for, THE PEOPLE.