I pay federal taxes every year — on time and without complaint. In return, I expect the government to spend that money as the Constitution requires: through Congress, through debate, and through lawful appropriation. Instead, we have entered a war costing more than $1 billion a day without congressional authorization for either the fighting or the funding. That is not governance; it is abandonment of process.
I pay for a government built on expertise and accountability — one that keeps our cars safe, our skies monitored, our food inspected, and our air and water protected by science, not politics. I expect investment in research, education, and a basic commitment to the elderly, the disabled, and the vulnerable. Above all, I expect my tax dollars to reflect democratic consent — not to finance an unauthorized war never sanctioned by Congress.
But this is not just about expectations. It is about structure. It is about the Constitution.
Article I of the Constitution vests the power of the purse in Congress which writes the laws. Congress appropriates the funds. Congress decides what programs exist and how they are financed.
Article II charges the President to “care” that the laws be faithfully executed — not selectively delayed, not quietly dismantled, not reinterpreted out of existence.
This is not a partisan complaint. It is a structural alarm. If Article I is ignored and Article II is untethered from its obligation, then representation becomes theater and taxation becomes extraction without accountability. And that is not the republic we were promised.
We have tried the polite and traditional methods of protest. We have marched in the streets with handmade signs and clever slogans. We have filled public squares and listened to speeches about “norms” and “institutions.” We have boycotted Tesla dealerships. We have watched television commentators debate the erosion of democratic guardrails. We have written letters to our representatives, signed petitions, posted statements, and waited for someone in power to rediscover their spine. Nothing changes.
Here is an action plan. We pay taxes supposedly to get certain government services and many of these services are now cut. We are not getting what we paid for. WE MUST STOP PAYING TAXES until the government begins funding programs that were previously funded by Congress.
We cannot do this individually. There were 165 million individual tax returns filed last year. We need a massive protest and coordinated effort to end this current government. The Last No Kings Protest drew between 7 and 10 million people. The next NO Kings Rally scheduled for March 28is expected to draw up to 20 million people. This is good starting point. Speakers at these rallies should remind people to hold back on filing their returns this year. Let’s deny this government trillions of our hard-earned dollars so they can no longer ignore established funding laws and do what they wish with our tax dollars.
WE STOP PAYING ALL TAXES BEGINNING APRIL 15, 2026. This is the Resistance Movement to this corrupt and illegal government. This only works if millions of Americans who oppose the current administration join forces and collectively stop paying taxes. One person stops paying taxes and they get fined. Several people stop paying taxes and they get rounded up. Millions stop paying taxes and we have a movement. We cheer the Colonialists for 250 years who in Boston threw the tea into the sea because they had no representation. Let future generations cheer us as they learn that we stopped paying taxes to a corrupt regime and brought them to their knees by refusing to pay our taxes until we were represented in this government.
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