Lets say, I come to you and ask for $1000. If you don't pay me before March 1st, 2013, I'll send you a reminder. If you don't send money within a week, I'll send you another reminder. If you still don't send money, I'll ask a friend of mine to come to your door and politely ask again. If you still reject my "offer", I'll send another friend with a gun who will ask you again. If you don't open the door, he will kick it out and search for money in your house. If you try to stop him, he will kill you. As a last resort, of course.
We both know that we know the whole chain of threats. Doesn't my demand for your money equate with physical violence? If not, how short should be the chain of such persuasion until the gunpoint, so it's considered equal to threat of physical violence?
They are more likely to simply garnish your wages or seize your bank account than they are to break down your door and go searching around in your dresser drawers for money.
But they will get their money, one way or another. That point stands.
Assuming "him" is the government, no, he won't, unless you try to stop him violently. The government doesn't kill people who don't pay taxes. Your analogy doesn't work.
The Waco and Ruby Ridge incidents were about not paying taxes.
The Supreme Court said "Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife." In these cases, heavily armed agents raided homes for want of $200 in NFA manufacturing taxes; whether heavily-armored men crashing thru windows carrying automatic weapons actually fired the first shot, or baited the occupants into "threatening behavior", is irrelevant: the government killed people who didn't pay taxes.
So you can keep a key of your vault with your unpaid taxes and no one will try to take it from you by force? Bank manager will not go to jail if he does not make a wire transfer from your account to IRS?
We both know that we know the whole chain of threats. Doesn't my demand for your money equate with physical violence? If not, how short should be the chain of such persuasion until the gunpoint, so it's considered equal to threat of physical violence?