Just like strikes in the world of labor, a tax strike must have a critical mass of participation to be effective. Unless the IRS can be overwhelmed with 'collections' and a significant dent made in tax revenues, they will gladly confiscate accounts and properties while imprisoning a few of the more egregious 'offenders' as a deterrent.
Better to 'go Galt' and starve the Feds by shutting down so there is nothing taxable. But of course that has consequences of its own and takes careful planning to become self-sufficient while creating communities of like-minded families. And once again, there is no useful effect without a critical mass of participation.
I personally doubt that there is a sufficient number of people with the courage to follow either course.
I find myself at times hoping for a very deep crash of the economy--so deep that the government is unsustainable. The problem of course is that this is an inherently violent scenario that would result in millions of deaths before stability returns and there is no guarantee that the political system that ultimately emerges will resemble the free republic we were born to and saw destroyed. If I think enough about it, I stop hoping it happens. LOL!
Meanwhile, back in reality, here's an absolutely excellent talk by one of the great financial minds of our times--Eric Sprott: http://j.mp/W0q5dy
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