The beginning of a protest movement against Barack Obama's redistributive policies is underway. Though still small, every movement starts somewhere. While called the "Tea Party" after the Boston Tea Party, this movement is similar to movements throughout history where the producers of society refuse to have their property and income confiscated.
This movement can succeed if it does not stop at protest and includes changes in economic behavior...
History tells us, however, that economic redistribution plans fail because the producers of society would rather not produce, than have the fruits of their production taken away and given to others. Obama can raise the tax rates on income, but he cannot force people to generate income to be taxed. People may just say "no." This resistance will not come from evading taxes, but from evading taxable income. In the end, as must all economic redistributors, Obama either will have to resort to repressive measures, or he will have to abandon his redistributive plans.
The best example of this phenomenon is the forced collectivization of farms in the Soviet Union. At the time of the Revolution, Russia was a largely agrarian society which allowed more productive farmers (so-called "kulaks") to prosper. Since the kulaks represented a political threat to communism...
In addition to protest, supporters of the Tea Party would do well to change their economic behavior to deprive Obama of what he wants most, your tax dollars. Invest in municipal bonds, carefully manage your investments to minimize taxable income, do everything possible and legal to insulate yourself from creating taxable income. In so doing, you will doom Obama's plans because the inability to raise tax revenues will cause Obama to move to more confiscatory tactics, and then the political revolt really will begin, as it has throughout history.
We all know how that ends..
I could do everything you say and, as long as I work for a company, reduce my total tax payments by maybe 2 or 3%. In California, our sales tax is headed toward 10%. There are unavoidable gasoline taxes. Special assessment taxes on everything. Local utility taxes. County taxes. Real estate taxes. The tentacle of government are long and the consequences of avoiding any of these taxes are very heavy. There’s really no way to starve the beast except by electing the next Ronald Reagan — and even he couldn’t abolish entire useless departments in the government.
These are all 100% legal means to starve the federal gov't of tax dollars and you save $20-$30 for every $100 in income you avoid taxes on.
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