What % of tax-evaders would be critical mass?

[Subfallen]

If 100% of American citizens not employed by the Federal Government stopped paying taxes, obviously the income tax would be de facto dead.

But any x% too large to effectively prosecute would also kill the income tax. Because the dim-witted public would finally realize that universal laws can only be enforced normatively. There's not enough violence to go around.

So what is the smallest x%?

[AlexM]

I think it would have to be near 50%, but the government would crackdown on it long before it got to that point, so I don't see it happening although it's possible that such a crackdown could cause a revolution.

[Borodog]

The real problem is that something like this would have to be organized, and the organizers are very easy targets.

Another problem is that the income tax is largely administered and extracted by employers via withholding, coerced by government threat to their businesses.

[yukoncpa]

As a start to logically answering your question, offshore tax havens control about 26% of the world's wealth including 31% of net profits from U.S. Multinationals.

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