go Galt

present singular third person goes Galt · participle present going Galt · past went Galt · participle past gone Galt

1. idiomaticintransitiveTo become a recluse and stop contributing to society, especially in the form of taxes, by reducing one's work or productivity or by refusing to follow societal norms that one believes to be unjust.

   We job creators are not going to take it. We are going Galt! Just like in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, we are gonna leave you parasites behind and relocate to an island where only rich people can live — Manhattan!

   2012 November 6, The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert (actor), via Comedy Central

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   Smith, who’s still mulling over ways that she can “go Galt,” sees a possibility for a moral stand. During the Iraq War, she read about a painter who’d painted less, reducing his income, in order to dodge taxes and thereby make sure he didn’t fund the war.

   2009 March 6, David Weigel, “Battling Obama by ‘Going Galt’”, in The Washington Independent, archived from the original on 23 Nov 2012