War Tax Resister Ed Hedemann

NWTRCC’s Ed Hedemann appeared on yesterday’s episode of GRITtv with Laura Flanders. (His part of the show starts at 28:30.)

Hedemann talked about his more than 35 years of war tax resistance, the War Resisters League pie chart showing lopsided military spending, and how he asserts his own budget priorities through redirection. And he answers the frequently-asked-question: “how do you stay out of jail?”:

And now for a couple of brief notes from here and there:

• One tactic of the “Tea Party” tax protesters this year is to register their protest by mailing tea bags to their Congressional representatives. Sounds innocent enough, but these days if anything arrives in the mail that isn’t an 8½″×11″ sheet of paper folded nicely, it’s assumed to be a dirty bomb of explosive weapons-grade anthrax wrapped in radioactive kiddy porn.
• Here are some handy Tax Preparation Tips from The Onion.

Thanks to Attack the System for plugging The Picket Line.