It's about the only way you'd get the ruling you want.
Judges really do understand that they are not truly independent and their economic well being comes from a government flush with money.
OK, now you're saying that they are too stupid to be judges.
They are not thinking about all the wasted spending, they have no control of that. They have to keep the money coming in to cover all the spending and still pay their salaries.
Wrong. They are FIRST in line, Constitutionally, to be paid, and their salary may not be decreased.
Congress would be on the hook for a Constitutional tax code.
We, on the other hand want to stop the stupid spending. The best way to do that is starve the beast into submission.
And all those nasty second-order effects are just the price of making an omelet, eh?
In case this didn't occur to you, if you had enough people willing to do as you propose, it would have happened ALREADY. If you got even close to that many people willing to not pay taxes, then there'd be a sea change in Congressional politics.
YOU: And all those nasty second-order effects are just the price of making an omelet, eh?
It seems that you are making an argument similar to somone arguing that cutting off the drug supply to a drug addict will have such nasty effects that it is better to continue to supply drugs to him.
I think that there are more people than you think that want lower taxes, they just have no way to express that desire. Mostly we have two candidates for each seat and no good (constitution respecting) choice.
I take a lesson from the Libertarian driven ballot initiative in Massachusetts. The state income tax just missed being repealed by the voters 45% to 55%. I am sure that a few voters, seeing how close it came are kicking themselves for not voting yes.