"It's an Amazing Psychological Phenomenon"

If you've ever enjoyed watching and laughing at the 1980s films "The Gods Must Be Crazy" (I and II), set mostly in the South African country of Botswana, you may recognize the quote in the title. The film calls into question the sanity of the "gods" who rule so-called "civilized society," and with good reason: They're not really "gods" at all, and their often foolish actions demonstrate this.

To illustrate ...

"...if even 10% of the population wanted no 'taxation' at all and had escaped the myth of “authority” (including the 'democratic' kind), they could achieve their goal easily by simple non-compliance." - Larken Rose, The Most Dangerous Superstition

Compliance to the taxation "law" is psychological.

For example, the USA is about 335,000,000 (335 million folks). Let us arbitrarily estimate the number of actual taxpayers in the USA at 170 million, or slightly more than half of population.

Thus, if only 15,000,000 (15 million), which is less than 10 percent of American "taxpayers", simply refused to comply with the taxation laws, the less than 100,000 (100k) Internal Revenue Service (IRS) workers would have a very difficult time keeping up. If so many hard-working people felt they did not have to pay taxes any more and refused to cooperate, there would be no way for the IRS to force them; they simply do not have the man power, and they know it.

They don't have the budget to do this. Obedience to tax "laws" is purely psychological, base on a superstitious belief in supposed "right" of an "authority" to appropriate your earnings and spend it however it sees fit, without you having any say in the matter.

The principle applies to the enforcement of ANY OTHER "laws," if and when a similar percentage of the population merely feels no obligation, "no shame or guilt" about obeying the authority that legislated them.

"They" simply cannot force 10% of the population to go against what they believe in their hearts and minds, and "they" know it.

Thus, your own obedience to an impotent "authority," intent on extorting you, is purely psychological, an illusion inculcated into your mind from infancy (parents, relatives, church, friends, mainstream media exposure), and reinforced through government (taxpayer-funded) schooling.

You would not willingly obey a neighborhood street gang member, a "thug," who threatened violence while telling you to hand over your paycheck to him, would you?

Our inculcated habits of not questioning, of blind obedience to "authority," of "just following orders," are something everyone sane should rightly contemplate, seriously.

Think of your average annual tax "refund" from your employer's withholding from your paycheck, over the past 10-years. You are happy to receive back some of the money you had worked hard for during the previous year, right? Suppose that amounted to several thousand dollars per year. After 10-years, that would be several tens of thousands of dollars, maybe even in the six figure range by now.

Just imagine if you had been able to invest those previous 10-years of tax "withholdings" into a cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin? Where would you be today, hypothetically- and financially-speaking? #BCH

Do you see what you've been doing? You may now resume laughing.

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