[B-Chan]

When the real producers stop producing or dramatically slow down, there is not much in the way of income taxes due. Many have already “gone Galt” and many more will do so in the next few years. As John Galt did, most of us fly under the radar.

Ah, so it's a question of degree. I thought "going Galt" meant refusing to participate in any immoral economic activity, to refuse to live one's life for the sake of another. Now I see that you can be a real Randian without going all the way to the Gulch -- just "dramatically slow down" your output a bit (and post a bunch of bull on the Internet) and you can relax behind your impenetrable force field, your Objectivist hymen intact.

Well, count me in. I have just decided to "go Galt" by not reporting the $40.50 in loose change I saved up in my Keroro bank over the past three months. That'll show those altruists in Washington who drives the motor of the world!

[hunter112]

It doesn't take living Eric Rudolf style to "go Galt". If the most productive sectors of society refuse to take risks, if ordinary consumers cut back to bare necessities, and if even average wage slaves decide not to give a little extra towards working overtime, then we starve the beast.

All we have to do is to pare things back to the bone, and we produce misery for the idiots that voted for Mr. Hopey Changey, and get the mushy middle's head out of their posterior long enough to see where they went wrong. We don't have to convert the moonbats, we just need to get the people who don't think about elections until the weekend before them to see the light, and give them a rational choice to put grown-ups back in charge.

I'll admit, there was not that clear-cut a choice for them last time around.