Effective Protest ?
The original tea party protest was the spear head event of a tax protest movement by the American colonist which quickly brought the English tea merchants to the brink of ruin. Like the tea party protest of old, our current protest may only be effective when the impact of our displeasure is felt in the pockets and investment portfolios of Washington politicians and bureaucrats. Of course the government can always print more money, as it has recently become accustomed to doing with abandon, to soften the blow of an actual tax revolt. However is an effective tax revolt possible? If all conservative patriots decided to no longer pay any tax at all, how would that work? The original tea party had teeth because the economic structure of a free market had yet to be tampered with by self seeking socialist ideologues. Our current tax policy is a great multi-tentacled octopus reaching into every area of life. Try to avoid paying your local, state and federal t...