Just because I advocate ending the income tax, how does that collapse the government? Isn't the Congress capable of devising a replacement plan? Maybe a plan that is readily understandable by the general public; one that doesn't punish the successful; one that doesn't violate every principle that this country was founded upon; a moral plan that doesn't plunder one citizen to fund another? Do you think that that is possible? How about cutting unconstitutional spending rather than raising taxes. How about cutting the size of government and eliminating the waste and the fraud?
But if my ideas are impossible to accomplish, maybe collapsing this government isn't all bad after all.
That isn't what you advocated. You advocated 70 million people just turn off the thing and letting the pieces fall wherever they may.
The Constitution sets out how one goes about changing how the government does business. If you follow it, you avoid those nasty second-order effects I was talking about. But you didn't advocate following the Constitution.
Isn't the Congress capable of devising a replacement plan?
In less than three months, which is the time horizon you'd try to force them to act within? No. If there was that big a majority for tax reform in Congress, it would have happened ALREADY.
You'd just wind up with Doomsday hitting while the various factions were still backstabbing each other.
Yes, let us just bring the government into compliance with the constitution. That would chop off almost 2/3 of the current spending and we would no longer need the income tax or any replacement tax.
Remember Harry Browne's platform in 2000: Repeal the income tax and replace it with nothing!