I've watched a few trials of these guys because they're often entertaining. Most don't strike me as people struggling to make ends meet. They seem like self-entitled people who think they've discovered a loophole that gets them out of paying for things or suffering repercussions for their actions. Like they'll be fighting a ticket for driving without a license or registration and their argument is that they aren't constrained by those laws, and oh by the way, the flag behind the judge has a fringe that means it's a naval court and doesn't have jurisdiction over their case.

Look up the trial of Darrell Brooks, the guy who drove through a crowd of people at a parade (I want to say Wisconsin?). He was a SovCit and he had all sorts arguments about why the court didn't have jurisdiction over him.