Your Alt-Reality Is Boring......A plea for more interesting alt-realities than the Moon Landing Hoax, Flat Earth, and No Virus.
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What I should have done was just went off the grid and strictly under-the-table income. But I was angry and a bit naive 30 years ago as an impressionable 21-year-old.
So I filed a bunch of paperwork saying taxes were voluntary and asking for refunds of previous income (which wasn't that much as you can imagine, asking refunds for when I was still a teen). So they hit me with frivolous filing fees of a few thousand and then eventually got a lien.
It was a difficult time, at that time, couldn't hold a job for more than 6 months without getting garnishment papers and quitting, moving on to the next job.
But I persevered and eventually flourished.
I actually left the US just before Obama took office and have been living abroad ever since.
Looking back on it all, I'd do it again. But I'd also caution anyone who would do the same to reflect on the consequences and harsh realities of the situation.
That's effectively what my research had shown, that there IS an argument that can be made to make one immune from income taxes, BUT it's very easy to create a situation where you 'opt in' and from then on you have to do the income taxes that it's really a massive gamble where one would truly have to know what they are doing.
For me, it became a fight that I didn't want to take the gamble and risk potential prison time, or massive fines...
That said, I've known people from construction days who owed ~100k in taxes but then negotiated that they could never pay that much and got it reduced 90%.
Their power to enforce their lie is all they have.