New National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee Newsletter

The latest issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter is now on-line, with articles including:

• a report on the 30^th anniversary national gathering
• Geoff Huggins on adopting new war tax resistance strategies as a retiree
• Steev Hise writes about his experience with the IRS “Offer in Compromise” process
• some movement news including impressions from the School of the Americas Watch annual vigil, updates about war tax resisters who ran for office in the last elections, news about war tax resisters who have participated in anti-drone civil disobedience actions, and a mention of the recent New England war tax resistance regional gathering
• an overview of the decisions made at the coordinating committee meeting at the last national gathering
• When you sign the application for a Minnesota driver’s license, you are supposedly agreeing to the following statement:

  Submission of this application constitutes consent to registration with the selective service system, if required by federal law.

  Dan Lundquist tried to apply for a driver’s license without agreeing to this statement, but the state refused to grant him one. So, Lundquist says: “Since 2006, in an act of civil disobedience, I have driven without a valid license.”

This dispatch comes from the Sag-Harbor Corrector of 5 December 1829:

“If we mistake not, Spain is, after the Emperor of Morocco, the first power that has consented thus to signify its adhesion to a bloody despotism, resting upon a palpable violation of oaths the most sacred, and of rights the most incontestable. It is, indeed, a fine example to follow, that of the emperor of Morocco, & we only wonder the French ministry does not hasten to class itself among its imitators.” The ministry appears as unpopular as ever, and the associations, commenced in Brittany, to guarantee the tax payer against the consequences of refusing the payment of taxes imposed in any manner contrary to the charter, were spreading over France. Loraine and Paris have each established one — to that of Paris, three Deputies, Messrs. Dupont, (de l’Eure,) Manguin, and General Demarcay, subscribed. In doing so, M. Dupont writes, “Long ago I had resolved to refuse the payment of any tax not laid in confirmity with the constitutional charter, and it is therefore with all my heart that I unite with other citizens who have adopted the same resolution.”

The Gazette de France, a ministerial paper, speaks of these associations as delivering France into the hands of a directing committee (comite-directeur) of liberals.

These various associations and their tax resistance campaign eventually led to the downfall of King Charles Ⅹ in 1830.