I think the primary issue is that, as far as I know, Ian has never really spoken about this on his show other than to say he's paying property taxes because Julia wants him to. You'd have to be crazy to stop paying property taxes on your own without at least a small army of others willing to do the same. Any power you have when standing against the Feds is always in your numbers. I don't think the general listening public understands Ian's relationship with Julia(married?, living together?, etc) so when he says he's paying his property taxes because she said to it can be seen as a way to avoid having to stand up to the Feds when it comes to something drastic and using her as a shield to avoid putting himself and his property on the line for liberty and so on and so forth. Not paying a fine for having a couch in your yard is nowhere close to being on par with avoiding paying your taxes. My initial perception on this was that Ian was using Julia as a scapegoat for paying his property taxes. He's stated otherwise in this forum. Case closed.
I really can't believe we can't organize more property owners in the Keene area to stop paying their property taxes together as a whole.