Size of Income Tax Drop Surprises U.S. States: Study

“Most U.S. states were surprised by the size of the drop in their personal income tax collections this April, even though they had expected a decline, according to a report released by the Rockefeller Institute of Government on Thursday. Personal income tax revenues in April were 15.8 percent, or $7.9 billion, below the same month in 2013, according to preliminary estimates from Rockefeller, a public policy research group at the State University of New York. April is a key tax collection month because of the federal tax filing deadline.” Nothing would make me happier than to learn that a good part of that drop was due to deliberate efforts on the part of tax-payers to deprive this criminal government of income. I'm not even going to do the research to see what the cause is. Instead, I shall indulge in my happy little fantasy that people en masse are beginning to refuse to pay and refuse to comply.