The way civil disobedience works is you PUBLICLY violate the law - e.g. refuse to pay taxes - and publicly accept the whatever punishment is thrown at you. You then use your arrest and trial as a sort of demonstration against whatever it is you are protesting. Silently refusing to pay taxes is not an act of civil disobedience. It's just fraud.

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It's a regular Snopes page of tax dodging mythology. All of the hits are catalogued...

Myth: The filing of a tax return is voluntary

Myth: Payment of tax is voluntary

Myth: Taxpayers can reduce their federal income tax liability by filing a "zero return.”

Myth: The IRS must prepare federal tax returns for a person who fails to file

Myth: Compliance with an administrative summons issued by the IRS is voluntary

Myth: Wages, tips, and other compensation received for personal services are not income

Myth: Only foreign-source income is taxable

Myth: Federal Reserve Notes are not income

Myth: Taxpayer is not a "citizen” of the United States, thus not subject to the federal income tax laws

Myth: The "United States” consists only of the District of Columbia, federal territories, and federal enclaves

Myth: Taxpayer is not a "person” as defined by the Internal Revenue Code, thus is not subject to the federal income tax laws

Myth: The only "employees” subject to federal income tax are employees of the federal government

Myth: Taxpayers can refuse to pay income taxes on religious or moral grounds by invoking the First Amendment

Myth: Federal income taxes constitute a "taking” of property without due process of law, violating the Fifth Amendment

Myth: Taxpayers do not have to file returns or provide financial information because of the protection against self-incrimination found in the Fifth Amendment

Myth: Compelled compliance with the federal income tax laws is a form of servitude in violation of the Thirteenth Amendment

Myth: The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was not properly ratified, thus the federal income tax laws are unconstitutional

Myth: The Sixteenth Amendment does not authorize a direct non-apportioned federal income tax on United States citizens

Myth: The Internal Revenue Service is not an agency of the United States

Myth: Taxpayers are not required to file a federal income tax return, because the instructions and regulations associated with the Form 1040 do not display an OMB control number as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act

Myth: African Americans can claim a special tax credit as reparations for slavery and other oppressive treatment

Myth: Taxpayers are entitled to a refund of the Social Security taxes paid over their lifetime

Myth: An "untaxing” package or trust provides a way of legally and permanently avoiding the obligation to file federal income tax returns and pay federal income taxes

Myth: A "corporation sole” can be established and used for the purpose of avoiding federal income taxes

Myth: Taxpayers who did not purchase and use fuel for an off-highway business can claim the fuels tax credit

Myth: A Form 1099-OID can be used as a debt payment option or the form or a purported financial instrument may be used to obtain money from the Treasury

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Dirty deeds done dirt cheap! Special holidays, Sundays and rates!

Completely agree. Has anyone asked him if he's willing to go to jail? Further, has anyone come to take him to jail?

Civil rights protesters were willing to go to jail for their cause. America's revolutionaries were willing to risk hanging in order to oppose the crown. I can't say whether he's willing to go to jail in order to oppose taxation. That's a question that is unanswerable unless someone tries to arrest him.

If I believe the government is acting unconstitutionally, don't expect me to change my mind because that same government made rules to compel me to accept what I already view as unconstitutional.

Let that be cold comfort to the "tax protestor" serving a fully Constitutional prison term for tax evasion (as the court sardonically wrote in the US v. Sloan opinion). Ah, the price of citizenship...

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Dirty deeds done dirt cheap! Special holidays, Sundays and rates!

Total non-issue.

Oppose the administration or not, if you owe federal income tax, you can expect to be subject to criminal penalty if you don't pay it. That applies to everyone.

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Dirty deeds done dirt cheap! Special holidays, Sundays and rates!

shocked that the IRS is harassing foes of the current administration

The liens against Hidalgo span a decade, from 11/17/1997 to 2/28/2008, so they all predate the current administration.

I doubt anyone is shocked that you got something completely and utterly wrong.