One way a tax resistance campaign can get a leg up is through
the acts of sympathizers within the tax collection bureaucracy
itself. After all, they’re taxpayers too, and may feel more
loyalty to their fellow-subjects than to the government they’re
subjected to.  To this end, some tax resistance campaigns have
made strides by encouraging resignations, defections, and
goldbricking among those responsible for carrying out the tax
laws.  In this, they’re following the lead of Thoreau, who
wrote:   Today I’ll give some examples of tax resistance
campaigns that tried to persuade the tax collector to switch
teams.  Free Keene  A group of activists in Keene, New
Hampshire, ranging from Christian anarchists to “Free State
Project” ballot-box libertarians, has been experimenting with a
number of creative civil disobedience projects.  In , Russell
Kanning went to the Keene branch of the Internal Revenue Service
and tried to hand out leaflets to the employees there. The
leaflets quoted from the tribunal that presided ov