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Tactics that Increase the Number of Resisters

For many tax resistance campaigns there is strength in numbers. When enough people resist, the campaign reaches a tipping point where the government’s ability either to fight back or to ignore the problem falters.

Successful tax resistance campaigns make it easier and less-daunting for people to begin resisting, and they also develop ways to slow attrition in the movement. This chapter discusses tactics campaigns have used to increase the number of resisters.