Some tabs that have passed through my browser in recent days:
- Two limericks I wrote, inspired by current events, were selected for the Center for a Stateless Society’s poetry feature.
- Milwaukee’s WUWM profiled war tax resister Don Timmerman.
- The IRS looks unlikely to be able to comply gracefully with the terms of the Paperwork Reduction Act as it rolls out its income tax forms. This might give taxpayers some creative avenues for gumming up the system.
- On the 300th anniversary of the birth of Quaker war tax resister John Woolman, FEE gave an overview of Woolman’s abolitionist work.
- Traffic ticket robots continue to suffer attacks, lately in France, Germany, & Italy, yet more in France, France again, and France & Italy.
- In the New York Times, economist Robert H. Frank explains how tax evasion can balloon quickly when tax enforcement falls below a tipping-point.
- Ruth Benn, at NWTRCC’s blog, takes aim at the “All or Nothing Syndrome” in which some people give up on doing war tax resistance at all because they don’t feel capable of going all-in and resisting everything.
- David S. D’Amato, at libertarianism.org pens an admiring look at the life of Christian anarchist tax resister Ammon Hennacy.
- The number of Americans declared to be renouncing their U.S. citizenship hit an all-time high this year and only three quarters into the year, too.
- Peace activists in Ireland who broke into Shannon Airport to decommission U.S. military aircraft stationed there have been found not guilty by a jury, who apparently agreed with the defense argument that they were lawfully justified in their actions.
