[AngryJawa]

Those are strong words, but appropriate I think. So my question is, what can we do about it? Taking up arms is unwarranted and ineffective. Tax revolt will just land people in jail. So what's left short of these options?

Untrue. An armed tax revolt a long time ago is the reason I'm not a British subject.

Human nature is such that freedom and power will always, in the bitter end, be purchased in blood. I'm not advocating it because it the process is pure horror, but the notion is true.