I'm just going to reproduce some comments from my blog announcement of this article below, because I think tactics would be a very useful follow-up discussion:
Excellent article. This is where I think keeping our money off-shore would help in this regard aka Sovereign Society - by starving the beast. Or is this way off the mark from "going for the jugular"?
Glad you liked it. I'm hoping that putting forth a (the only) effective high-level strategy will lead to a targeted discussion to devise the best tactics to make it happen. As I implied in the article, tactics are really the next step. This is exactly the sort of symposium (virtually or personally) we should be holding.
As far as strategy, the tactic you're suggesting is definitely in the ballpark (in the right spirit, anyway) except for the unpopularity/low resources point I made. Presumably, those who actually do have enough resources to make removing it matter are already doing what they can to remove their assets, unless they are invested in the State and making more money by playing the game than they lose. Getting more committed anti-Statists to do it won't make enough of a difference, as far as I estimate. (Not to mention that if it did, the State would take even greater steps to prevent capital flight than they already do.) Like the potential tactic of mass protests against State confiscation of funds, in order to make it an effective reality, there's got to be some sort of tactic bridging us from here to that "Gandhi" point when it could make a real dent. Right now, we are nowhere near there in terms of mass awareness. If we could get everyone loosely displeased and angry with the State to actually unite under the understanding that the State must go, and begin serious attack on its two pillars as I describe, we would at least be at a "Tea Party" moment. Sadly, we are far from that—so I would assume that getting there educationally among anti-Statists at large is a necessary objective tactically. As I pointed out, most just don't get how ineffectual their stabs are. (Thus, you might say my article was tactical in intent, although strategic in content.)
The biggest thing the RP campaign accomplished was getting some more people to understand more about the myriad of ways States fund themselves by stealing from citizens in one tricky way or another... but it's mostly unknown to people how the financial system is rigged against them. Sadly that campaign was not devotedly an awareness campaign aimed at State defunding but a misplaced attempt for State reform, so that too is another layer we need to get out there.
We need, right now, to figure out and employ the best possible tactics appropriate to dissidents (and in general, small groups) to overcome the hump of inequality, in terms of awareness, resources, & people dedicated to opposing the State effectively, compared to others who are not effectively committed, finally compared to habitual conformists, and the State's true partisans.
Certainly a discussion that needs to continue on the PM forum, I think...
Going for the Jugular