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Carl Higbie used his Newsmax platform to do what too few in conservative media dare: name the problem and call for bold action. On his Friday program he urged American workers to withhold federal income taxes from their paychecks as a direct way to send a message to the Treasury and to congressional Republicans who have talked a big game about cutting spending but repeatedly fail to deliver.
The demand for radical action isn’t coming from nowhere — conservative leaders and House Republicans have warned that Democratic efforts could let tax cuts lapse and saddle hardworking families with crushing increases. Higbie’s call is rooted in that context: when the political class threatens to raise taxes while continuing to spend like a drunken sailor, citizens have every right to respond politically and economically.
Let me be plain: this is intentional pressure politics, not garden-variety talk radio bluster. Higbie argues that withholding will force the Treasury and a timid GOP to finally take the issue seriously and either hold the line on tax relief or face the consequences at the ballot box. Conservatives tired of paper promises recognize that real leverage is earned, not begged for from the swamp.
Every patriot should also hear the sober facts: deliberately refusing to pay federal taxes carries real legal exposure under federal law, and the IRS has a full toolkit of civil and criminal penalties for willful nonpayment. The agency can assess steep fines, interest, and in extreme cases pursue criminal charges — risks that anyone contemplating civil disobedience must weigh carefully against the scale of the betrayal by Washington.
But let’s not let the fear-mongers on the left and inside-the-beltway Republicans drown out the bigger truth: when politicians raid your paycheck to fund foreign entanglements, corporate bailouts, and inside-the-Beltway pork, ordinary Americans are morally justified in fighting back. If GOP leaders continue to handwave while Democrats cheer the expansion of the administrative state, rank-and-file Americans must organize, speak out, and use every peaceful lever available to defend their families and future.
This moment is a test of conservative resolve — will we continue to vote for men and women who promise relief and then deliver excuses, or will we turn up the heat until they keep their word? Carl Higbie gave the country a spark; now it’s on citizens to decide whether to let the fire for fiscal sanity die out or to stoke it into a movement that finally forces Washington to live within its means.
