Rush (and Jim), the government prints its own money. You cannot fight a government that can pay jackbooted thugs with fiat money that the average American will accept as legal tender. So don't pay your taxes. The good news is that your income taxes will drop to nothing. The bad news is, so will your income, 'cause you'll be in jail.
Civil disobedience only works if you cost the government WORKER something. Personal time is the only thing a government worker cares about.
To make the government care about illegals you have to make NOT picking up illegals more work than picking them up. And that demands real civil obedience. For instance, you might utilize illegals' services to knock on doors and hand out pamphlets in wealthy neighborhoods, pamphlets with the phone numbers for the Homeland Security Border Enforcement office.
"You cannot fight a government that can pay jackbooted thugs with fiat money that the average American will accept as legal tender."
Of course you can.
You all hate France, but France is showing you how to do it right now. 10 million of you flat out refuse to pay the law, refuse to shut up, refuse to move on, and if anybody lays a finger on them, all of their friends and relatives get MORE pissed off and come out too.
The government can't imprison even a million people, let alone 10 million, or 50 million.
What Limbaugh said is true: if a massive portion of the population went on a tax strike, and simply refused to pay their taxes - indeed, filled out their W-4 forms to block withholding (in other words, committed "perjury" according to the form), the government would collapse. The federal government of the United States is nowhere near strong enough to be able to handle massive, directed, pointed defiance of its orders. It could not even handle the dislocation from a hurricane.
Also, who will the police obey? Who will the army obey, if there is an order to use VIOLENCE against peaceful citizens.
Limbaugh is right.
The fastest way to bring the government to heel is mass defiance of the tax system.
But Americans are idol worshippers. Their idol is their law. Americans will never break the law, no matter what.
France is showing how the government can be forced to cave in and change laws in a week, with its tail between its legs to boot.
But you're going to keep mocking the French and doing whatever government tells you to do. Because that really is the American way. Unfortunately.
Rush is right here.