I agree totally, all these people saying change your exemptions and don’t pay are missing the fact that the govt. just prints money and moves numbers on a huge scale. Who cares if theirs is withheld for a year. It’s pointless and can only result in fines and interest, counterproductive to the goal of depriving them revenue.
All I am saying is inundate them with paperwork that they have to painstakingly process to the point that the agencies crippling becomes newsworthy. Ask for the automatic extension, but estimate wisely and pay along with that request. Later, file, accurately. Later, amend, for a simple $20. All handwritten with stray marks, oddly formed digits, anything to befuddle the automatic processing equipment.
That doesn’t mean you can’t use turbotax or whatever. Just copy if by hand and mail it in at the end.
Feel free to discuss my idea with anyone, since you cannot endorse such a thing of course but yet it may be an interesting idea. :^)
USPS would make another simple example of a newsworthy target. Postage due for trivial amounts, and remail junk mail to yourself. (Don’t tear it up, drop it in a blue box near work..... Repeat as needed. ) Imagine a snarled USPS, again, newsworthy.
A consumer boycott of this Christmas is another idea I’ve heard.
If people can’t start performing such simple civil disobedience’s then they deserve whatever becomes of the economy. Support the fiscal cliff. Put your money where your mouth is conservatives. Really I have little faith such things can happen, at least not until the TV stops working.
Your idea really is very sly. I like the remailing idea too.
I’ve actually started doing that, not exactly, but somewhat close. I work in a med. sized office building in a med. sized city, serviced by our city’s main post office which is staffed, I’m sorry to say, by complete dopes. We get a lot of mail that isn’t for us. Some days we get entire bundles that are for other companies in our building. It’s clearly not ours.
In the olden days I’d take this mail to my neighbors, I don’t do that any more. I actually had an unfortunate personal exp. a few years ago that caused me to decide to just be less nice. I still try to be good, for example if I get a check for the company down the hall or even the folks that moved out of our office years ago I’ll bring it over or send it on, but I gave up on nice.
I do also do this because I just got gosh darn tired of doing the POs work for them. There’s an awful lot of this around lately, people wanting YOU to do the work you’re PAYING THEM to do.