July 05, 2007
Some Anti-War Folks Avoid Paying Taxes
Yep...if you can't make your vote at the poll count, then hold back the cash:
War tax resistance, popularized by Henry David Thoreau in the 19th century and by singer Joan Baez and others during the Vietnam War, is gaining renewed interest among peace activists upset over the Iraq war.
"Clearly this year we definitely had more people calling, sending e-mails about how they decided to start resisting," said Ruth Benn, coordinator of the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee in New York.
Based on the committee's mailing list and reports from numerous groups it works with around the country, Benn estimates 8,000 to 10,000 Americans refuse to pay some or all of their federal taxes over war objections. Internal Revenue Service officials say they don't have figures for that specific category, but earlier this year reported an overall noncompliance rate of 16.3 percent and estimated the annual tax gap at about $345 billion.
Interesting. Does that mean that if I don't like something the government is doing, like giving financial assistance to illegal aliens, that I can avoid paying taxes too?
Why didn't I think of it before?
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Hopefully these idiots will be thrown in jail where they belong. But then, if Jesse Jackson is allowed to cheat on his taxes, why shouldn't all moonbats get a free pass?
Posted by: Van Helsing at July 5, 2007 07:00 PMTo your point let's add funding for
Abortion
NPR
Pork Projects
Any Kind of Sensitivity Training
Sex Ed
Feel free to add your own objectionable spending items to this list
