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This article focuses upon the tax revolts in the United States from the end of World War I to 1941.The tax revolts were far from being spontaneous movements.Indeed,they were strongly organized and relied upon the professional networks of real estate boards and lawyers.The Great Depression deeply reinforced the claims and political practices in many American cities.At the very beginning of his New Deal for the American people,Franklin Roosevelt tried to dismantle those conservative fiscal revolts to implement his own urban policy.This case-study reveals the deep rationality of antistatism in the United States,still considered in many books as a backward fight from marginalized social groups to denounce the modernization of the country.