I think the easiest way to visualize the problem is to reduce it to financial math.
Let's say I earn $60k in a year. So I owe $5k to the federal gang, $2k to the state gang, and $1k to the Venezuelan gang.
There's a moral problem here (why are these strangers taking my money when I did nothing wrong) and there's a structural problem which is that the rate of taxation and the way it's being spent has become a disruption to my ability to do business, and is crossing over from a nuisance I can afford to ignore, to a drain on my life's work, which ultimately harms not just me but the entire financial ecosystem in which we all live.
Well, I do have $52k left. I have a gun. I have friends who agree that taxation is theft, who also have guns. The United States was founded as a capitalist country. We have Bitcoin now, which effectively channels the pursuit of self-interest into a public benefit. We have a prolific Jew who provided a moral framework to justify blowing things up. So really, I think I have a lot of leverage in this situation.
The ideology is the strategy. You do what works for you with the information you have. God sorts out the rest.
I think the easiest way to visualize the problem is to reduce it to financial math.
Let's say I earn $60k in a year. So I owe $5k to the federal gang, $2k to the state gang, and $1k to the Venezuelan gang.
There's a moral problem here (why are these strangers taking my money when I did nothing wrong) and there's a structural problem which is that the rate of taxation and the way it's being spent has become a disruption to my ability to do business, and is crossing over from a nuisance I can afford to ignore, to a drain on my life's work, which ultimately harms not just me but the entire financial ecosystem in which we all live.
Well, I do have $52k left. I have a gun. I have friends who agree that taxation is theft, who also have guns. The United States was founded as a capitalist country. We have Bitcoin now, which effectively channels the pursuit of self-interest into a public benefit. We have a prolific Jew who provided a moral framework to justify blowing things up. So really, I think I have a lot of leverage in this situation.
The ideology is the strategy. You do what works for you with the information you have. God sorts out the rest.