re: The answer is to stop paying taxes

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Creating a run on banks, a crash, then the government would step in with the military

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And right here is where you go wrong. A lot of politicians would disappear overnight, dead or fled. And no, they aren't mobilizing military on US soil. Those GI's would turn their rifles on their unit commanders, with the quickness (assuming any officer would even give such an order).