War Tax Resistance

War Tax Resistance: How a Portland Couple Have Refused to Pay Taxes for Over 30 Years to Protest Military Funding
Today is April 15th, Tax Day, a day when tens of millions of Americans scramble to file their income taxes on time. It's also a day when people across the country are planning to protest the use of tax dollars to fund war. A recent study shows that more than 40 percent of every income tax dollar in 2007 went towards military spending. We speak with Pat and John Schwiebert, a Portland couple who have refused to pay their taxes for the past thirty years to protest military spending. [includes rush transcript]

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[basspig]

Ed & Elaine Brown refused to pay their income taxes, actually refused to file income taxes for several years. Two years ago, federal agents raided their New Hampshire home & now both are in prison.

Irwin Schiff, tax resistor extraordinaire, is also serving an indeterminate amount of time for his role in promoting tax resistance.

The only legal tax resistance is to have no income, but that gets you in trouble with LOCAL taxes, which are due, regardless of income. Property taxes worse than Fed.

[358Liberty]

Most of us are scared of the IRS thugs Ron Paul 2012

[jillllllybean]

If that were true, what do liberals care about what everybody else pays? Do they get to not pay if everyone else pays more?

[jillduncan2008]

Your pension board must not realize that a "notice of Levy/lien" is not that same as a "levy/lien".

[StoogeWatcher]

Liberals don't pay their taxes, so they advocate tax hikes for everybody else.

[ehrija94hyeaehrij]

"He or she who supports a state organised in the military way - whether directly or indirectly - participates in the sin. Each man old or young takes part in the sin by contributing to the maintenance of the state by paying taxes." - Mahatma Gandhi