I have a serious question about “prepping” and perhaps this thread is a good place to ask it and get some seriously good answers.
Let’s say you are moderately well prepared for what some are saying is inevitable. You are debt-free, outright own a nice spread of acreage and a house in the mountains, with 5 flowing freshwater springs and can grow food and live off the grid if necessary. The community surrounding you is like-minded and ready to pool resources and talents to all survive.
Now, here is the question that is keeping me awake and my blood pressure too high..... What do you do when the dysfunctional government comes to collect the property taxes each year? And don’t just tell me that property taxes are levied only by counties. When the income tax dries up, the feds (and the UN) will come after the only thing we still own.... the land. And our entire community lining up with our guns to hold them off will not stop them from flying over and dropping bombs.
Is it just me, or do we “preppers” seriously need Divine Intervention as our number-one asset? Because it seems like that is what it will all boil down to.
The government, as it is, would not survive to that point. Without the money from the US, the UN could not function. Without the US driving the world economy, no other force could project itself to the North American continent.
There are a lot of “fears” that do not stand up to critical analysis or common sense.
In a serious collapse, no government at any level will be working. People who “did” work for government, will be home trying to keep their family alive.
If there were any lawmen working, they would be trying to put down chaos, not coming to get you off your land or drop bombs to destroy you and the land. They aren't going to take on another battle on top of trying to stop the killing going on everywhere.
Also, there are too many people in a county in every state in the union, for any govn. law agency to try to remove everyone from their land.
Take the situation in Nevada that just happened with the rancher. The federal agency who took the rancher's cattle and wanted the rancher off the land, backed off because there were more patriots with weapons than there were agency armed men. That is a lesson for all to learn - there are more of us than them. Those patriots had weapons with them. If they hadn't had weapons, the federal agency would have NOT backed off. That is why we have the second amendment - the right to bear arms against a tyrannical government.