As a non American: as a form of protest, instead of doing protests in the streets, why donโ€™t you just stop paying taxes?

It seems to me you have a very easy way to tell your government youโ€™re fed up with it or just as a form of protest.

Iโ€™m sure your gov has a horrible way of inforcing taxation, but you actually do have the option of not-paying.

They already have our tax money, unfortunately. Itโ€™s taken from our paychecks and then we get to play a stupid game of โ€œguess the number or jailโ€ every April

If you set your withholdings really high the amount taken drops by quite a bit.

And then when it comes time to pay, just get on a super low monthly payment plan.

And then just keep tacking amounts onto that each year.

I am not a lawyer. But I can say myself and another friend have been doing this (him for years and years) and so far nothing of note has happened. His goal is to just die with a balance owed.