Let me put this first warning, it is very radical but it is effective too.
Disclaimer: I am not ADVOCATING FOR OR AGAINST IT, IT IS UP TO YOU. I AM PASSING ALONG INFORMATION THAT I KNOW ABOUT. THERE IS NO NEED TO HORDE KNOWLEDGE, IT MUST BE SHARE AS A WHOLE FOR A SOCIETY TO LIVE IN HARMONY.
“Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.”
-Alexander Haig, U.S. Sec. of State, June 12, 1982
It is impossible to conduct warfare without soldiers and weapons. However, before governments can buy weapons and recruit soldiers, they must first raise the necessary money through taxes or borrowing. War tax resistance is refusing to pay some or all of those federal taxes that contribute to military spending.
I met this woman during a rally, ever since then she has been one of the few people I really admire. Some of you may know her and some of you may not. The person I am talking about is Kathy Kelly
Here is some info on her:
In 1988 she was sentenced to one year in prison for planting corn on nuclear missile silo sites. Kelly served nine months of the sentence in Lexington KY maximum security prison.
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Kelly helped organize and participated in nonviolent direct action teams in Haiti (summer of 1994), Bosnia (August, 1993, December, 1992) and Iraq (Gulf Peace Team, 1991). In April of 2002, she was among the first internationals to visit the Jenin camp in the Occupied West Bank.In the spring of 2004, she served three months at Pekin federal prison for crossing the line as part of an ongoing effort to close an army military combat training school at Fort Benning, GA.
Nobel Peace Prize Nominee with Denis Halliday 2000
Nobel Peace Prize Nominee 2001
Nobel Peace prize Nominee, with Voices in the Wilderness 2003
One of the things she has done for 25 years, she is a war tax refuser, she has refused payment of all Federal income tax.
Since there isn’t a specific tax that goes directly to the military, war taxes generally mean individual federal income taxes and as well as some excise taxes (e.g., the 3% federal excise tax on telephone service). Though a case can be made to include Social Security, state, and local taxes, these are generally not considered “war taxes.”
The following information comes from the 2007 United States Budget – “Analytical Perspectives.”
BUDGETTED: Current Military = $563 billion:
- Military Personnel $110 billion
- Operation & Maint. $162 billion
- Procurement $90 billion
- Research & Dev. $72 billion
- Construction $8 billion
- Family Housing $4 billion
- DoD misc. $4 billion
- Retired Pay $49 billion
- DoE nuclear weapons $17 billion
- NASA (50%) $8 billion
- International Security $8 billion
- Homeland Secur. (military) $27 billion
- Exec. Office of President $2 billion
- other military (non-DoD) $2 billion
UNBUDGETTED: Iraq & Afghanistan Wars = $100 billion:
Most of the spending for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is not included in the President’s Budget but the Administration will seek supplemental appropriations later this year as it has in the past three years. This is likely an underestimate.
Past Military = $439 billion:
- Veterans’ Benefits $76 billion
- Interest on national debt $353 billion (80% est. to be created by military spending)
That information is from our government. Remember Orwell and the Ministry of Truth. Depending on how a watchdog group presents the budget figures, the number will differ from the governments.
Center for Defense Information (CDI) 51% of our federal income tax goes to the war machine.
Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) reports 42%.
Like I said, it is radical way to protest and it can be done. Once again, this is my disclaimer: I am not ADVOCATING FOR OR AGAINST IT, IT IS UP TO YOU. I AM PASSING ALONG INFORMATION THAT I KNOW ABOUT. THERE IS NO NEED TO HORDE KNOWLEDGE, IT MUST BE SHARE AS A WHOLE FOR A SOCIETY TO LIVE IN HARMONY.
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“If a thousand men [and women] were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood.”
-Henry David Thoreau