A Mutual Aid Insurance Program for War Tax Resisters

Some bits and pieces from here and there:

• American war tax resister Peter Smith was on yesterday’s Spirit in Action radio show to talk about the War Tax Resisters Penalty Fund — a mutual aid insurance program that helps war tax resisters who have been levied on by the IRS:
• Unions in Buenos Aires have executed a general strike to protest a refusal to increase the low-income tax exemption.
• IRS head John Koskinen spoke at the National Press Club about how hiring freezes, low morale, and funding cuts have made it difficult for the agency to attract younger workers. Excerpts:

  Koskinen said that over half of IRS staffers are over 50, and that roughly two in five employees will be eligible for retirement by 2019. On the flip side, the agency only has around 1,900 staffers under 30, which amounts to roughly 3 percent of the workforce.

  “Essentially, the IRS is facing its own version of the baby bust,” Koskinen said.

From the 13 April 1844 Cambrian:

Appointment of Overseers

On Saturday, a Special Petty Sessions was held at our Townhall, for the purpose of passing the accounts of the Overseers for the various parishes in the Hundred of Swansea, and also for receiving the lists of their successors. The Magistrates present were T. Edw. Thomas, Thomas Penrice, L. Ll. Dillwyn, Esqrs, and the Rev. Samuel Davies. … The accounts of the parish of Ilston and another parish could not be passed, in consequence of the non-compliance of the Overseers with an order, that 18l. for defraying the expenses of constables, who were employed to watch the gates during the late Rebecca disturbances, should be contributed by each parish. The Overseer declared that the parishioners positively refused paying the rate, knowing the purpose for which it would be applied. Mr. Attwood informed him, that the only course would be to obtain warrants against the parties refusing, or he (the Overseer) would be held personally responsible for the amount.