I've actually been thinking a lot about this lately. Has there ever been a time in which citizens of their respective countries actually stopped paying taxes to their government as a form of protest? I mean hypothetically speaking, if you can get anywhere between 50-60% of the population to stop paying taxes, I'll be quite curious to see how the government respond to that. Like will they issue an arrest warrant for 50% of the population that decided to not pay their taxes? Has this scenario been theorised?
I guess how I came to this is that like, voting every 4-5 years for a government is fine and all but if within that 4-5 year period, people have started to see how ineffective the government is, or how corrupt they are, shouldn't there be some sort of a right for the citizens to stop paying taxes until that mess is sorted out? I mean every day people are complaining/protesting on the streets about how retarded their own governments are but yet they still pay their taxes. It really does feel like an oxymoron tbh. It just kind of feels to me that the only way to actually have the people's voices heard is to cut the funding of the government.