Tax Resisters of the 1970s, from Google News’s Archives

Using Google’s new News Archive Search I dug up a few old news articles about tax resistance that I hadn’t seen on-line before:

• Five Members of Faculty Will Withhold War Taxes To Voice Vietnam Dissent from The Harvard Crimson, 9 April 1970. Among the signers were “Salvador E. Luria, M.I.T.’s 1969 Nobel laureate, and George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology and a 1967 Nobel winner.”
• The War Tax Protesters from Time, 19 June 1972. Prompted by the war tax resistance of Jane Hart, wife of Senator Philip Hart of Michigan, this article gives a short summary of the Vietnam-era movement and notest that “their harassment has forced the IRS to assign someone at each major center to the task of ‘Viet Nam Protest Coordinator.’ ”
• Means and Extremes from Time, 19 May 1975. A review of Karl Hess’s Dear America which chronicles his evolution from a Republican speechwriter to an anarchist tax resister.

More of what your taxes pay for: gargantuan bribes to convince member states of the United Nations Security Council to vote the way our government wants them to:

[W]henever a country becomes a temporary member of the UN Security Council (the rotating seat), U.S. foreign aid to that country increases by nearly 60%. And when the country leaves the council, aid drops off to the old level.

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