Right! If you file your W-4 with your employer, n-a (non-assumpsit) on all the lines except the "EXEMPT" line, where you write EXEMPT, and sign it
non-assumpsit, By: Your Signature, Agent, you can sue your employer if he withholds.
"Non-assumpsit" means "no-contract" to the IRS. They will honor it if you don't have some other contracts with them, because taxes are voluntary by contract or agreement. Your employer might not honor it, however, because he is basically ignorant about the voluntary nature of income taxes.
Even if it were legal you should not be allowed to do this.
People who do not want to pay taxes in the USA should not be allowed to live permanently in the US, own any property, be a citizen, etc.
You don't want to pay taxes? Fine, you will be stripped of the US citizenship, or Green Card, your property, the bank accounts will be seized without compensation and you can immigrate to any country that will take you.
Either you are part of that society or you are not. Being part of that society means you have to contribute to it.
Selfish leeches should be removed, or incarcerated IMHO.
All you tax "resisters" will be put in jail and your property will be seized, one way or another. Only complete morons can follow your logic.
"I don't have to pay taxes but I will drive on public roads, drink water from public aquifers, send my kids to public schools, get my government IDs or other services, register my real property, etc."
Are you a complete moron, or you are just pretending to be one?
That is a very socialist/communist way of thinking. I want stuff but I don't want to pay for it.
Not only is this legal, it's also lawful. It has to do with contract law. Living in your definition of the USA doesn't have anything to do with it. The USA is what upholds what I have written, and many people are doing it all the time, with more learning how.
People are finding that, if they were born in a State, that they are not really US citizens... although the US accepts them readily. So, they are changing their status on paper to State citizen through things like this -
http://coppermoonshinestills.com/id71.html.
What happens when you become a State citizen and not a US citizen, with regard to income taxes? You don't have to file with the IRS... except to tell them that you are not making any agreements with them. All State taxes are based on IRS returns. No IRS return = no State return, either. Totally legal and lawful.
If you are the kind of person who wants to pay, great! Pay. But why do you want to take my freedom to NOT pay away from me? You are a slave maker, at least in spirit. And you want to make slaves of anybody who is free, especially if they use the law to be free.
At best you are a hypocrite. At worst you are a complete controller/slave-maker. That's way more socialistic and communistic than exercising your freedom.