No link, but New Hampshire man is getting ready for all out fight with government officials in protest of paying the income tax. He says it's unconstitutional.

Brown, 63, and his wife, Elaine, 65, were convicted Thursday of plotting to conceal their income and avoid paying federal income tax. They argued the tax is illegitimate and they are not required to pay it.

U.S. marshals said negotiations with Brown continue and they have no plans to attack Brown's Plainfield home or act quickly on the arrest warrant. He has been holed up in his home with armed supporters for much of the trial.

"He wants attention. We're determined to keep this very low-profile," U.S. Marshal Stephen Monier said.

Brown said he has a stock of food and supplies and that his home can run on wind and solar generators.

"It's all set up for me to stay here forever," Brown said by phone.

Elaine Brown, a dentist who earned most of the couple's income, was staying at her son's home in Worcester, Mass., pending the couple's sentencing in April. She said she had no plans to return to Plainfield, where she fears there will be a violent confrontation.

The Browns' case has found support on the Internet from militia members to libertarians and anti-tax groups.

Rick Stanley, a Denver-based Web radio host and a militia leader, urged listeners to join Brown at his home.

"We are continuing to ask patriots to surround Ed Brown's property and life with a ring of armed Americans with firearms and video cameras to protect a fellow American," he said. "This is the flash point. This is the time of raised pitchforks."

There are two points I'd like to discuss. One is of course whether or not he is right or not. The second is what does this signify, a good thing or bad?

On the first point I'll say I've seen plenty of evidence from both sides and it feels pretty inconclusive to me. One the second point, I think in an odd way it's great that the guy is doing it. I feel it's important that our elected officials have a degree of fear towards the people who elect them, to make sure they don't step over the line and never think twice about it.

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The sheep have allowed this to go on for so long it has become a legitimate law. That's all. They should have put a MANDATORY stop time on the income tax when it was enacted in the Civil War period or at LEAST have stopped the fed withholding around WW2.

Your only fight now can be at the Supreme Court level. A few angry citizens, without national support, will be ground under the federal boot in no time at all.

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Not a day goes by that I don't see something that reinforces my belief that people are idiots.

Here's an interesting site to look into on this:

Nontaxpayer

Have to agree with this:

I think in an odd way it's great that the guy is doing it. I feel it's important that our elected officials have a degree of fear towards the people who elect them, to make sure they don't step over the line and never think twice about it.

I think that we should have more say in what the taxes, we pay as individuals, pay INTO. I don't approve of MOST of the SHIT that our govt. dirtbags decide to waste my $$ on and don't feel I should be forced to finance their wasteful spending on crap I don't approve of.

People in New Hampshire don't have a lot to bitch about as far as taxes go.

The five states with the lowest tax burden as a percent of income are: Alaska (6.6%) 50th, New Hampshire (7.3%) 49th, Delaware (8.4%) 48th, Tennessee (8.6%) 47th, and Alabama (8.8%) 46th.

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They should live in Maine.