Right-wingers grift their MAGA followers by suggesting they can stop paying income taxes...

[Abolishinist]

8. They've been promoting this for decades. From the article...

Needless to say, people who do not pay their federal income taxes can face significant penalties, including imprisonment. In 2016, for instance, a California man and Freedom Law School member was sentenced to “33 months in prison for tax evasion.” The Justice Department wrote in a press release:

According to evidence presented at trial, in 2001, [Richard Thomas] Grant stopped filing individual income tax returns and paying income taxes despite the fact that he received significant income as a partner with Grant Engineering & Manufacturing, an engineering company in Richmond. In 2003, Grant stopped filing annual partnership returns for Grant Engineering, even though he continued to pay a CPA to prepare these returns. That same year, Grant became a member of Freedom Law School, and paid thousands of dollars in yearly membership fees. While the IRS attempted to collect unpaid taxes owed by Grant for 2001 and 2002, and attempted to examine Grant’s taxes for subsequent years, Grant, with the assistance of Freedom Law School, attempted to frustrate the IRS’s actions by, among other things, filing multiple law suits in various jurisdictions. These lawsuits were unsuccessful.

This really worked out well for him! In addition, I wonder how much he ended up spending on taxes, penalties, frivolous lawsuits et al.