The "Civil War" could end up as a refusal to participate. Just say no to Leviathan.
Indeed.
I'm coming around to this train of thought. Work your "slave job" just enough to pay the mortgage and taxes and such, then work a grey/black market outside of the routine tax schedules, bartering value for value.
Met people recently from whom I can obtain farm-grown rabbit, chicken, japanese quail, eggs, goat milk and other food recently. Paper greenbacks (for now) or silver or barter. Need to get my garden shaded with a pergola so it will survive here in AZ, and restarted this fall.
Mount my solar panel array on top of the pergola... one of the things that has held me up on continuing with solar installation in my house has been the fact that I need to replace the shingles soon, so I don't want to mount panels on the roof to make the bid for that job any higher. A pergola makes for a perfect structure on which to mount a solar array.