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Just an opinion, but if 1 million or more tax payers refused to file taxes, I think politicians would start to pay attention.

That's illegal and can be used to oppress the good people of this country even more, but there is something we can do. Avoid anything as much as possible with an attached tax. For Christmas give food products. Food is not taxed. Make cookie or cheese baskets. The dollar store has baskets, and they're only a dollar. It's better than paying all that consumer tax and getting nothing in return. If you have a craft, make your gifts. Make your own laundry detergent (even my husband, who is REALLY picky about his office clothes, likes my home made detergent!)
Buy used off Craig's list, or from non taxed states on e-bay.
If Americans were serious about going Galt and not feeding the beast, they'll bite the bullet and do what it takes to starve it.
ALWAYS pay small businessess with cash. What happens to that cash after it leaves your hands is not your concern.

Starve the beast. Legally avoid any and all taxes as much as possible. Be creative. Make it a way of life.

That's illegal and can be used to oppress the good people of this country even more

Good. Let them oppress us more. Let this people see the real face of what we willingly live under and deceive ourselves as to their true intentions.

Our Founders were willing to defy the Crown and their 'taxes' and refused to comply with tyranny wrapped up in the color of 'law'.

The cost is high when defying tyranny.

But when you defy the beast, the Beast will come to force itself upon you at the end of a gun.

Then you have the God-ordained right to defend yourself from such oppression by every means available.

Starving the beast won't work in our case. Their economic theory holds that excess debt and inflation are good, and that means that they are not as reliant on taxes as a "normal" country would be (artificially low interest rates, and a willingness to borrow without limit, will shield them from any damage done by a grass-roots movement). In the worst case scenario (their worst case), they will simply confiscate retirement accounts, or even bank accounts. All of this crushes the middle class, of course. But not only does that not matter to them, it also helps them politically.

The only possible way that we can avoid sliding into a hybrid of a banana republic/poor-man's Europe, is if historically Republican voters start voting against left-wing Republicans, in both the primary and the general. As long as left-wing Republicans constitute the "opposition" party, there will be no opposition at all. And the only way those politicians can be removed is if Republican voters stop buying into the idea that it is a strategically sound decision to vote for the lesser of two evils.

We (Republican voters) blew it in 2014. The left-wing Republican stranglehold is stronger than it was. Left-wing Republicans know that they don't even have to pretend anymore, and conservatives, as a result, have been effectively neutralized. The "yea we won" crowd will point out that there are a number of new conservatives, and we are making progress. Unfortunately, this is irrelevant. Conservative Republicans will have little effective power, and all that matters is that left-wing Republicans are in a much better position than they were.

We need a UKIP. And we need it very soon, or there won't be much left to salvage.