We also need to start an economic resistance.
I believe that the faster the economy and stock market unwinds that the sooner people will wake up to the fact that these plans won’t work and they are leading to socialism.
Therefore..I am all in cash in the market. We stopped all unnecessary spending. We canceled every monthly type regular expense we could. Cut cell minutes, increased deductibles on insurance etc. We told each supplier that we were cutting back due to Zero’s economic policies and uncertain future.(lets their employees know what we are thinking). We have no newspaper or magazine subsciptions(read at library). We eat in and buy on sale.
We will delay paying taxes until last minute. Stopped using credit cards(even though we pay each month).
We will hold out on our rentals for higher rent and higher credit score.
Your ideas are spot on. We have been living the life for a long time now and I can honestly say that the economic downturn has hurt us very little if at all. Add to the list diversification of sources of income and don't rule out bartering.
Consider this analogy... If you need to fell a large tree, you can either expend all your energy chopping it down or you can just girdle the bark and in a short amount of time it will die and fall by its own sheer weight.
Starve the Beast!
The problem with that is over half the voters in the USSA wants socialism. Succession or tax revolt is the only way. Let folks sucking at the government teat see it dry up when the producers quit feeding the pig. Kaliforina and the Northeast would turn into Somalia.