“There is only one remaining peaceful way to change things: Withdraw your consent and thus intentionally but peacefully and lawfully destabilize the underpinning of the government debt market,”
Forgive me. I haven’t had my coffee. What does this mean practically? Going Galt?
Yes. Earn less. Pay as little tax as possible. Stop trying to get ahead.
Their whole master plan is based on exploiting through excessive taxation what they see as the "greed" of the white middle class - that we will keep trying to earn bigger houses, bigger cars, bigger salaries - at any costs. When we stop, and teach our kids how the scam works, then the whole rotten edifice comes crashing down - just as it did in Atlas Shrugged.
Pretty much. Starve the tax power base via producing and consuming less. This ploy could work for a while until, in my humble opinion, a wealth tax is instituted. Government only represents the biggest voter base (takers including ALL government workers/contractors)and those with the means with which to buy influence. Everyone else......eat your peas.
“What does this mean practically? Going Galt?”
If that’s the two-word summary, I suppose so; but modified slightly. It means (as I understand Karl) reducing your income and income-producing activity and trinket acquisition activity to the point or “a” point where your tax contribution to the government is minimized or eliminated.
In Libertarian (of which I don’t consider myself one) terms, if you believe (in general) that taxes are theft (and while some taxes are necessary, eg; in support of constitutionally-specified mandates, whether you and I may or may not agree on just what those are, inarguably and obviously, the amount of taxes devoted to redistribution, graft, and corruption, massively exceed whatever is Constitutionally-mandated or even reasonable)
Further: [in a previous Ticker]
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=225292
Petronius— what this whackjob paranoid is advocating is ASSISTING the Cloward Piven plans of the marxists. To sit back and “withdraw your consent and... destabilize... the govt. debt market”. This is specious in terms of the very numbers he cites.
Truth is that the systems of disbursement CAN be taken over through political power shift to the conservatives. There are MANY kinds of fungible “money” available within these systems. First and foremost is the concept to all of Freedom.
Not slavery through the “wagon riding” freeloaders. All humans, even the illegals seek freedom, that is those who are not trying to enslave the others. Identify those and eliminate them— peacefully of course (however that peace can be obtained).