A Citizen's Guide to Quiet Rebellion

The Generational Theft Act of 2009 will pass (update: it has passed). We will sink the better part of $800 billion dollars into welfare, uneconomic green pipe dreams reminiscent of the 1970s syn-fuels debacle, the beginnings of universal healthcare, and all manner of money transfers from the productive to the unproductive and power from the people to the bureaucracy. The Leviathan has just been fed a carbo-loading meal. Our neophyte President, who promised us a new era, has given us the worst ideas of the last 30 years in a lethal dose, and he had to overtly lie to get it done. Three Republican Senators have let themselves be played like a stradivarius and been bamboozled into voting for something that they haven't read that represents everything they have opposed for their entire careers.

The answer, short of actual rebellion, is guerrilla economic resistance. Mad? What are you gonna do - write your Congressman? (Although it wouldn't hurt for Republicans and Libertarians to boycott Maine and Pennsylvania.) Change parties? Please. Voting and advocacy have been proven to be for pikers. Our elected leaders simply will not serve our interests. The only answer is to deny the government the very oxygen it needs to breath. My fellow citizens, if you are as repulsed as I regarding not just the content of the Generational Theft Act of 2009 (aka the "stimulus" bill) but also the dishonest process by which it was crammed down our throats, we have to take action. We will have to make some hard choices and some sacrifices, but we have to do everything we can to thwart the expansion of Government through the choices we make with our money. We have to drive our unwieldy ship of state onto the fiscal rocks. We have to deny our government the tax dollars it craves at every practical turn - from buying a pack of cigarettes to investing your 401K money.

The guiding principles are this:

- Engage in any and all tax avoidance and income sheltering that you can (see here)

- Do not buy US Treasuries either directly or indirectly (no 401K money into Treasuries)

- Reduce consumption of highly taxed consumer goods (I know it is hard, but quit smoking, not for your health, but to deny Leviathan his due and proper; or have a cell phone or a land line, but not both)

- Embrace the grey market and the underground economy (yes, pay your plumber in cash, drive across state lines to get goods tax free)

- Move any economic activity you can to the lowest tax jurisdiction that you practically can

I will be back with additional thoughts on how to starve our Leviathan state of the tax dollars it needs to enslave you, but for now understand that while these suggestions seem a little 'out there', they are a sound basis to start thinking about how you can repeal the Generational Theft Act of 2009 without waiting around to cast your vote or hoping that your elected representative gives a damn about you. Don't be dissuaded by thinking that that your choices are a drop in the bucket. Every little bit counts. Isn't that what the greenies tell us? Turning off a light switch when you leave a room is a critical habit to develop if we are to make a difference toward they're phony global warming doomsday scenario, so they tell us. Well, I say the same. From a black market pack of cigarettes to maxing out your tax deductions to simply hoarding your cash (remember, your government is counting on you to spend your way to its health), every small way you can deny our out of control government the resources it needs to expand is a day you bring the reckoning, and change, closer. We will never have smaller, less intrusive, and less arrogant government unless we forcibly humble it. Hold off on the pitchforks for now. Wage guerrilla economic resistance. I, for one, am starting today. If you agree, please share this post with others.