What if we all just don't pay our taxes this year?

[meadowlander]

34. This is a terrible idea when right wing nutjobs propose it and it's a terrible idea here too. Please stop.

1. Nobody is going to take you seriously if you choose a form of protest that also obviously serves your own self interest. That's like a toddler saying he's going to protest vegetables by having two desserts.

2. Your personal taxes are a particle of a drop in the ocean. You're never going to get a mass movement behind this to cause an effective impact on government spending or whatever it is you think you're going to accomplish with it.

3. It's illegal. And it's very likely that the only people who are going to notice you doing it is the IRS. They will garnish your wages, seize your assets and accounts and eventually arrest you.

4. It undermines our argument that we all have a responsibility to participate in civic life and part of that is paying our fair share. How are we supposed to argue for the social contract and billionaires paying their fair share if we latch onto any excuse to shirk on our own taxes?