Actually, what would be really cool is if 5m taxpayers showed up at designated post offices for each major metropolitan area and burned envelopes representing your tax return.
There are always news cameras there to show the people filing at the last minute.
Send your taxes early. Show up and make a show of it. Heck, someone could organize it so that each person burns theirs one at a time and as they do it, they hand over a paper with the totals for FICA, Medicare, income taxes, and state income taxes.
Get a running tally going on a grass roots website. The site would be geared toward *warning* the gov’t that these taxpayers are paying now, but intend to revolt soon.
If marketed properly, the numbers would be staggering.
“Send your taxes early. Show up and make a show of it. Heck, someone could organize it so that each person burns theirs one at a time and as they do it, they hand over a paper with the totals for FICA, Medicare, income taxes, and state income taxes.”
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How about a new angle on the Olympic torch across the country...only people would line up about 20 ft apart and “carry the flame” (their burning tax returns) and light the next one in line.
Heck, the last one could dunk it in the Boston Harbor to extinguish the flame. Now that would make for good reality TV!