So, my fellow Americans, at what point do we go Bartleby the Scrivener on government and when they ask for taxes, we simply say “I prefer not to”?

Let’s say you give your kid a very generous allowance weekly of $200, but each month he is asking for a few bucks more for gas money to get to work this week, and a hundred bucks next week to go to a concert with friends. So, you ask him: “Where’s the money going? I give you $800 a month, what do you do with it?” If his answer is, “Um, I’m not really sure. I am trying to puzzle that out and I’ll get back to you”, what’s an appropriate adult response?

Do you continue to fund the allowance? Do you keep coming up with the extra cash? What lessons would he learn if you did this? Do you conclude that the best case scenario is he is a fool and the worst case scenario is that he is either a criminal or drug user or a dupe for a criminal? Either way, why would you continue to throw good money after bad?

The answer is, you wouldn’t. The only reason we do is because the Feds are putting a gun to our heads with the letters “IRS” on the barrel and threatening to send us to jail and confiscate our homes if we don’t keep funding their amoral (at best) and immoral (at worst) behaviors on our backs. This, my friends, is Tyranny.