About 15 years ago I knew a political activist who made a very good point. I don't want to use his name because I don't know if he'd want to be associated with this blog (!). Anyway, he said something I've never forgotten:
"If you think of yourself as a 'taxpayer,' you've already lost half the battle."
That is to say, you've already assigned yourself the role of paying... and paying... and paying. You'll have to overcome your inertia before you can overcome anyone else's.
Not only that, but the label implies that paying taxes is your primary function in the universe. Is it?
Maybe assign yourself the role of "citizen." That gives you a position of enormous strength in the political environment. This USA was made for citizens, not for the government. It was founded to protect your rights and freedoms, not promote an overweaning and blustering "political class," to borrow a phrase from Rasmussen Reports.
Citizens don't yield to the government in the USA; it works the other way around. When the government becomes a burden to the citizens, it's time for the government to go. Remember that.
Hopefully this administration will come to realize that, too, while something still remains of our freedom.
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