As the productive class, if we keep going to work and paying our increasing taxes, why should they care? The only way they are going to pay attention is if the money stops coming in.
This is why it's such a good idea. The state budgets don't get the sales tax or service tax. The state loses money. The feds lose federal taxes from the merchant.
States will either have to take money from the feds, or cut back on programs at the state level, which is good for the tax slaves. When the economy returns, the programs will be gone - and hopefully never be allowed back.
If the state politicians try to raise state taxes to compensate, they'll lose THEIR jobs (unless they want to destroy their state like California is doing).
We can survive without the governments money, but the government can't survive without ours. When the slaves rebel - their masters starve.