Some people will never see the forrest for the trees.
The problem comes when you try to point out the injustice of the whole system and how inherently EVIL it is. He just keeps telling you that the courts have cleared it all.
I'm telling you the courts are not your answer, nor is violation of the statutes. Neither will get to the goal sought, a change in laws that are substantively constitutional though abusive in effect.
You do not uphold the Constitution and law by undermining the rule of law.
Change Congress, Change the law through the tools provided within the Constitution. Anything else works only to destroy that which the founders laid down for perpetuity and We The People.
Some people will never see the forrest for the trees.
True, you might try looking for answers in the Constitution. They are there, but I find many who would rather short circuit that framework than make the effort to actually correct errors in the system using the Constitution.
But personal direct action is so self satisifying and makes one feel so good until the hammer comes down. That is direct action underlies evil of democracies and why the Constitition institutes and guarantees a republic.
The unfortunate fact about government remains; it is about the aquisition and maintainence of power. Minor rebellions such as tax evasion and similar forms of protest merely serve to provide government with excuses to increase enforcement efforts and infringe upon individual rights, growing more tyrannical.
That is why it is encumbent upon us to utilize the instruments provided within the Constitution to effect change in a way that acts to preserve the republic rather than morph it into something else.
Sir Alex Fraser Tytler (1742-1813). Scottish jurist and historian:
The quotation is from the 1801 collection of his lectures:
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
The average age of the world's great civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence:
from bondage to spiritual faith;
from spiritual faith to great courage;
from courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance;
from abundance to selfishness;
from selfishness to complacency;
from complacency to apathy;
from apathy to dependency;
from dependency back again to bondage."