How I love the swooshing noise they make when they pass.

I don’t flatter myself that my going Galt is having a huge impact but, hey, every little bit counts. Whether this phenomenon is more purposeful, as in my case, or simply a bunch of people reacting naturally to bad government policies, federal tax receipts are taking a nosedive: June Federal Receipts: The Dive Continues, As Does Media Near Silence. Near media silence. Imagine that! Is it possble that the stimulus is ::gasp:: not working?!  Unemployment is approching double what it was during the Bush administration? The deuce you say! [Read more...]

Glenn Beck wonders what would happen if a million taxpayers stopped paying taxes. He suggests that they can’t put us all in jail. I’d like to remind him that they can take our property and garnish our wages. Sure, a taxpayer under those circumstances might not be caged. But he certainly would not be free.

There’s certainly no reason we cannot, as Ghandi suggested, withhold payment of taxes, yet still stay within the law. Just make the decision to earn less. That’s a difficult decision for people to make as it involves a bit of personal sacrifice, but it’s far less sacrifice than the penalties for tax evasion, and it’s more effective. [Read more...]

Wintery Knight notes that The most productive taxpayers flee higher tax rates. Imagine that!

No one seems to question that if you want less of something, you tax it. That’s why we have high taxes on cigarettes. Activists of all stripes are open about their desire to make it too expensive to smoke, and politicians agree. It’s for our own good! And if we insist on smoking, well, we’re going to have to be punished with a tax. [Read more...]

Recently I declared that I’d “go Galt,” that is, disengage from the economy to the greatest extent possible because my family is part of the 40% who are actually net contributors to the federal government, not the 60% who take out more than they put in.  It’s going pretty well so far. [Read more...]

So on behalf of those few of us who still believe in the Land of Opportunity, I beg you and implore you, in the name of our common patriot ancestors who worked so hard and sacrificed so much so that we could become so spoiled and ungrateful: take your 60% of the total income taxes and just go away.Because if you do, then there will no longer be an Enemy for the Left to stick it to. Then, perhaps, the half of the country that pays no income tax might have to put some skin in the game. Then, perhaps, with most of the wealth generation gone we will turn to our community organizers to provide the wealth creation, and the tax dollars, and the innovation. When you have gone the President of the United States, supported by an army of little acorns like Joel Berg, will have to start calling for the rest of us to be taxed more to address the inequality gap.That’s what I want.

Preach it, brother.

And about that “inequality gap” – it’s a load of crap.  The gap between the rich and the poor is shrinking, in terms of consumption.

The Liberty Papers notices The White House appropriating some “Going Galt” phrasing. (Well, what did you expect?  Were you awake at all during the campaign, when Barack “Moderate to Conservative Bipartisan” Obama was selling his snake oil?)

If only we could somehow generate electricity via Orwell’s spinning in his grave… a Galt machine for our brave new world. 

Edward Cline notes the left-wing reaction to all this and offers some excellent advice: [Read more...]