Tax Resistance News from the United States

Some tax resistance news briefs from the U.S.:

• Ruth Benn reports on her visit with war tax resisters in Milwaukee and some of what she found when browsing war tax resistance-related material at the Dorothy Day / Catholic Worker Collection held in the Special Collections of Marquette University.
• War tax resister Juanita Nelson has a page at First Person Oral Histories, including audio clips of some interviews with Nelson, photos, and transcripts.
• Cindy Sheehan profiles war tax resister S. Brian Willson on her blog.
• You may have heard in the news that you can move to Puerto Rico and thereby avoid U.S. income and capital gains taxes. Turns out that’s largely true, if you do it right, at least according to Forbes contributing writer Robert W. Wood.

From the 8 July 1843 Monmouthshire Merlin:

Activity of the Carmarthenshire Magistracy, &c.

Precautionary measures to prevent the possibility of breach of the peace continue to be adopted by the magistracy. The marines have gone from Pater to Cardigan, and two troops of the Castlemartin yeomanry have arrived at Narbeth from Pembroke. About thirty of the fourth Dragoons left Carmarthen for Newcastle on Sunday, from which place they returned to Carmarthen on Tuesday night. Other troops are to be stationed here; and, in fact, the whole country is to be studded with soldiers, who are to be kept continually shifting their quarters, so that the Rebeccaites may be quite unable to calculate at any time upon their presence at any particular place. The magazine on Picton-terrace is to be formed into a barracks for troops, and it is said that two hundred or more will be stationed at Carmarthen. The gate-levellers have continued their nocturnal depredations as usual. We understand that Major Parlby has refused to allow his dragoons to be harassed any more by being sent about the country in the dead of night, on fruitless expeditions after Rebecca — they knock up their horses, and receive no marching money for it. Colonel Love and Colonel Trevor are still here. Lord Cawdor and Colonel Powell, lord-lieutenant of Cardiganshire, have been in Carmarthen during the week.