| People who just refuse to pay on principle do exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_citizen_movement Sovereign citizens also don't agree that the US courts are legitimate, and you'll never guess what happens next: https://www.cpr.org/2018/05/22/sovereign-citizen-bruce-douce... He was "was sentenced to 38 years in prison". That's why most tax evaders try falsification rather than refusal. > At the sentencing hearing in Denver District Court, Doucette fidgeted in his spinnable chair, while chained up in a green jumpsuit. He sat alone because he has insisted on representing himself in this case. Before the hearing, the judge asked him if it was OK to proceed and he said, “I do not consent and never have.” Note the photo of him wearing handcuffs, surrounded by police. All law is implemented through using violence or the threat of using it. You can't resolve that conundrum by claiming that holding a vote to tax rich people is somehow apart from using violence. It's just an abstraction over it. These are basic facts, but a lot of people struggle to understand them because our society likes to pretend that there's nothing underneath the abstraction - that courts and rules is all there is. It helps them believe that if they vote to take other people's stuff, it's white and pure, that nobody is getting hurt. It's a "might makes right" argument pushed at every level of society, because it enables what you're doing here: claiming that "we" should be able to choose what is done with the fruits of other people's labour. |