We are already a nation of tax slaves.
The Stars and Bars represent defiance to tyranny.
Tyrannis Seditio, Obsequium Deo
*sigh*
The Confederacy wasn't a bunch of guys drinking beer and talking about guns in the garage.
They were a government and a particularly repressive one at that.
They had their own taxes and opressions and exactions and governing elite.
Income tax, wealth tax, the draft, the Home Guard, slave patrols.
There were even bans on alcohol production and sale.