33.0% of American Tax Filers “Lucky Duckies” in 2006

The IRS has released some preliminary data about tax year 2006, and these show that the increasing “lucky ducky” trend — the percentage of Americans living under the income tax line — has pretty much levelled off.

Between 1980 and 2000, the perecentage of those households who filed their tax returns but were below the income tax line was in the 18%–25% range. Since then, the numbers have gone way up. The last three years for which I have stats look like this:

Tax Year	Number of Zero-Tax Filers	Zero-Tax Filers as a Percent of All Filers
2004	42,500,000	32.6%
2005	43,800,000	32.6%
2006	45,700,000	33.0%

Almost a third of American households who filed tax returns last year paid no federal income tax at all for 2006 — either they paid none to begin with, or all of what they paid was returned to them as a refund.

And in other news…

The anti-war coalition United for Peace & Justice has been at best a very quiet and passive supporter of war tax resistance until recently. The group’s 2008 campaign plan, however, is more bold, and includes this language:
Over $500 billion has already been spent on this war, with no end in sight. While we keep the pressure on Congress to stop funding the war, we also need to nonviolently take matters into our own hands and encourage taxpayers to directly refuse to pay for the war. UFPJ supports the efforts of the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee and CodePink (both member groups of the coalition) as they encourage people to stop paying taxes for war.
Leslie Cagan, UFPJ’s National Coordinator, encouraged coalition members to support the campaign: “With Tax Day right around the corner, efforts are underway to encourage people to not lend financial support to this war.”
The March 2008 edition of Friends Journal contains an article by Nadine Hoover that discusses Daniel Jenkins’s attempts to legalize conscientious objection to military taxation.
The exploration of “frugalista philosophy” continues at WendyMcElroy.com. Brad writes:
…[W]hat we are doing is very similar to what John Galt and his fellows did when they went “on strike” and withdrew to Galt’s Gulch. We are denying the State and its army of leeches, not the product of our minds as such, but rather our productivity.
The lifeblood of the State is taxes. And the two biggest kinds of tax that most people pay are income taxes and consumption taxes (sales tax, gasoline tax, alcohol tax, etc.). If you can learn to live on less money, you can deny the State money twice — when you no longer spend it, and when you no longer earn it.
Consider an acquaintance of mine who buys the latest and fastest computer every year. Let’s say it’s a $2,000 computer. Here, we pay combined sales taxes of 14%, so he has to fork over another $280 at the time of purchase. Now assume he’s in a 33% tax bracket. He has to earn $3,403, to pay $2,280, to get $2,000 worth of computer. To get that computer he has to pay $1,403 in taxes.
From my viewpoint, every year I don’t buy a fancy new PC is a year I’ve kept $1,403 out of the rapacious maw of the State.
This doesn’t mean I’m working as a railroad laborer instead of as a physicist. No, I still work in my chosen profession, but only as many hours as I need to meet my very modest needs. This lets me “purchase” the most valuable commodity of all — my time, to apply as I see fit in other ways to enrich my life.
I’ve met many libertarians who wistfully wish they could move to a real Galt’s Gulch, to go “on strike” and deny the State the fruits of their labor. You can do this, at home, perfectly legally. All it takes is an adjustment of attitude and the development of new habits. Should this catch on — and, with a recession underway, frugality may become more a matter of necessity than choice — there will be not one, but thousands of “Frugalista Gulches.”
and Wendy McElroy notes:
Being frugal is not an end in itself; it is not just another way to amass savings so that you are the one who dies with the most and pays the highest taxes. Frugality is a way to own your own time — rather than someone/something else having a slave-master claim on your life. The less you have to earn in order to maintain a healthy and comfortable lifestyle, the less you need to trade irreplaceable time for money — ½ of which will be stolen by State through various means from income to gas taxes, from licenses to fines. To the extent you work ½ the year to pay off the State, well, to that extent you belong to the State.…
Get yourself out of that toxic loop in which your time is used to enrich others and not yourself. Being as economically independent as possible is the first step toward liberating yourself from wage slavery, from having ½ your work time go to support corrupt politicians and the overwe’ening State. Stop saying “yes” to the State by participating more than you must in a system that is rigged to rip you off. The farther back you can step, the freer you are.
The government-appointed taxpayer advocate continues to insist that the IRS policy of outsourcing some of their uncollected tax cases to private debt collection agencies is a boondoggle:

The program costs $7.65 million to run each year, [Nina E. Olson] said, and the IRS also pays private collectors $4.6 million in commissions, or around 25 cents on each dollar they bring in. That puts the cost of the program to more than $12 million a year.
Private debt collectors brought in $32 million in 2007, Ms Olson said, but are expected to bring in as little as $23 million this year. When the costs are subtracted, the IRS program may have less than $11 million in net revenues for 2008.
But there is a far greater cost, Ms Olson argued.
If the more than $7 million in operating costs were put into the IRS’s automated debt collection system — an existing program — the agency could bring in at least $91.8 million in net revenues, and possibly as much as $145 million — a much bigger return. Those figures do not include the commissions.
Ms Olson argued that when calculated against that backdrop, private debt collection cost the government at least $81 million a year in revenue.

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How you can resist funding the government → other tax resistance strategies → frugality / simple living / self-sufficiency → Wendy McElroy & Brad on: ▶; ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦; Susan van Haitsma advocates tax resistance in Dissident Voice. Also: the U.S. constitution on religious vs. secular conscientious tax objection, new frugality links, and Iraq is not Vietnam, but…; Help blockade the I.R.S. headquarters in Washington on March 19th. Also: the IRS went for a high-profile tax season tax conviction, rolled the dice, and it came up snake-eyes. And: Wendy McElroy sees frugality as a blood sport. Also: NTodd sees tax resistance as the least we can do. And: taking a closer look at the latest U.S. military budget.; Jeff Knaebel examines the sort of relationship an ethical person should have with a government, using the framework of Thich Nhat Hahn’s socially engaged Buddhism. Also: libertarians debate civil disobedience and the possibility of geographically diffuse, agorist splinter economies that compete with the State without confronting it directly. And: anti-war activists may be having more success than they know. Also: Wendy McElroy shares her “frugalista” philosophy. And: Vermonters are encouraged to seceed from the Union before Vermont does. Also: corruption and graft in wanton disregard for the safety of U.S. troops amongst American war profiteers? Who’d have guessed?; A taxpatriate, who fled overseas rather than continue to support and be embarrassed by the U.S. government, tells her story. Also: frugalista living tips from Wendy McElroy. And: a new sales pitch for war tax resistance — of the effective things you could be doing, it’s one of the easiest.; Wendy McElroy and Anthony Benezet on the joys of voluntary simplicity. Also: In 1781, representatives from the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting addressed a “memorial” to the Pennsylvania General Assembly pleading for relief from property seizures that war tax resisting Quakers were being victimized by.; Voluntary simplicity as a way of building freedom. Also: In Benjamin Hallowell’s Autobiography (1883), he tells of his refusal to pay militia exemption fines, and how he felt doubts about whether this Quaker practice was correct.; Tax resisters fight same-sex marriage discrimination, a reality show targets ordinary police corruption, Wendy McElroy chronicles a year of frugality, I.R.S. Offers in Compromise might be worse than nothing, Kristen McKee resolves to take command of her taxes, Francois Tremblay pulls aside the curtain of political power, and Milwaukee introduces a community currency.; Wendy McElroy discusses how her techniques of frugality, self-sufficiency, and agorism mesh with her activism. Also, Charles Hugh Smith makes some recommendations for how to survive the economic collapse.; Manners as a libertarian-friendly spontaneous order, Wendy McElroy on frugality, libertarians squabbling over symbolic elements of ideological tribal belonging, and alternative currencies in the Eurozone.
How you can resist funding the government → the tax resistance movement → outreach to other groups: ▶; ♦ ♦ ♦; The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee has a somewhat timid proposal before the national assembly of United for Peace and Justice.; From the latest issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter: updates on tax policy and the international conscientious objection movements, news and updates about war tax resisters and the war tax resistance movment, a story of how even a first-time token resister might come face to face with the capricious jaws of the I.R.S., and announcing a new speaker’s bureau. That and a great review of “We Won’t Pay!”; War tax resisters and conscientious objectors in the U.S. are featured in a new book. A Spanish group explains war tax resistance in comic book form. Peter Goldberger discerns hope for conscientious objectors to military taxation in the Supreme Court’s “Hobby Lobby” ruling. NWTRCC comes out with guidance on health care and income security for war tax resisters. And there’s a new NWTRCC newsletter out to boot.
How you can resist funding the government → about the IRS and U.S. tax law/policy → how is tax law/policy/administration changing? → “Lucky Duckies”: ▶; ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦; If only the richest 59% of Americans are paying federal income tax, the U.S. tax system must be absurdly unbalanced and unfair to the rich, right? Not. Also: A Republican senator looks at the mess in Iraq, does a quick 180 turn, and says maybe it IS time for a military draft after all.; The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee is holding its National Strategy Conference in Brooklyn next month. Also: the Tax Foundation says only 40% of income in the U.S. is being taxed, Democrats notice the anti-pork high road is unoccupied, and “Americus” sees his colors starting to run.; More proposals from Dubya’s tax panel, and some are worth keeping an eye on. And the Tax Foundation continues to get all Chicken Little about Lucky Ducky.; The Tax Foundation crunches the numbers on the 40% of Americans who live under the income tax line. And another bell tolls for the excise tax on long-distance phone service.; The Tax Foundation says that 60% of Americans take more from the government in benefits than they give to it in taxes. And if you believe that, here’s a list of other absurd things you might believe.; I seem to have struck a nerve with my criticism of the recent Tax Foundation study on the redistributive effects of government tax and spending policy.; Can self-employed people avoid self-employment tax by paying themselves in dividends rather than in salary? It appears so. Also: the IRS deceives a disabled veteran into signing his rights away. And: The Tax Foundation ignores its own advice and tells us our “Tax Freedom Day” this year will come on April 30.; The I.R.S. reveals that a third of those Americans who filed tax returns in 2006 owed no federal income tax at all during the previous year. Also: a timeline of the pundits and politicians who have been sharing that light at the end of the tunnel hallucination for the last four years.; Dana Visalli shares his experiences with tax resistance and I.R.S. enforcement efforts. Also: a look at which households will be paying no federal income tax this year.; Right now about a third of American households don’t pay any federal income tax at all. How would this change if Obama’s or McCain’s current tax plans were enacted?; The percentage of Americans who will be “lucky duckies” is likely to jump this year. A projected 43.4% of non-dependent Americans will owe no federal income tax at all.; The numbers are out on Lucky Duckies in tax year 2007. Also: actor Craig T. Nelson, a guest on Glenn Beck’s Fox News show, talks up tax resistance among the sick-and-tired conservative set.; An update on the number of “lucky duckies” who pay no federal income tax — this year it’s projected to be fully 46.9% of American households. Also: Pablo San José publishes a rejoinder to Ricardo Rodríguez’s critique of tax resistance in Rebelión.; The numbers are out on Lucky Duckies in tax year 2008: more than a third of tax-filing households paid no federal income tax that year (and 2009 promises to be even better). Also: mothers resist a ridiculous baby carriage tax in Paris in 1913.; The number and percentage of “lucky duckies” who file tax returns showing that they owed no federal income tax all year jumped to nearly 42% in 2009, according to statistics released recently by the I.R.S. Also: “tax day” newspaper articles from years past cover the war tax resistance of Ed Hedemann, Jack O’Malley, Ralph Dull, Rita Snyder, Kathy Levine, Donald Ealy, Bill Ramsey, Jenny Truax, Rebekah Hassler, Tom & Suzanne Makarewicz, and Mary Loehr.; Forbes tax blogger Peter J. Reilly gets inspired to write up his thoughts on war tax resistance. Also: the Tax Policy Center forecasts how the ranks of “lucky duckies” (American households that pay no federal income tax) will swell or shrink in the coming years under different policies.; More and more Americans do not have to pay any federal income tax. You might think this would warm the cockles of the tiny hearts of the folks at the Heritage Foundation, but you’d be wrong. Also: Congress is thinking up some new ways to crack down on people behind on their taxes.; More than 40% of American households paid no federal income tax on any of the income they earned in 2010. Also: updates on current tax resistance movements in Greece and Ireland. And: the I.R.S. drags its heels on giving any payouts to informers who have ratted out their tax evading neighbors and employers.; Frida Berrigan writes up her impressions of the Tax Day protests in New York City. Also: as the baby boomers swell the ranks of the retired, the ranks of non-taxpaying “lucky duckies” will rise as well.; News on the next NWTRCC national gathering, and some reports from the last one. Also: Fyke Farmer refused to pay for the “illegal” Korean War in 1953. And: it looks like most American households get more money from the government than they pay in taxes (even if you don’t count government employees or those who profit from government contracts).; Diverse tactics and grassroots organizing were key to the success of the poll tax resistance movement in the United Kingdom twenty-some years ago.; The latest IRS statistics show how many million income tax filers were “luckie duckies” who paid no income tax in 2011. Also: do I really have to write something about this “sequester”? And, Jack Payden-Travers leads a war tax resistance workshop at the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker.; NWTRCC’s fall gathering announced; a report on the BerkShares alternative currency; Robert Fernandes pays his taxes in $1 bills as a protest; lucky duckies are becoming rarer and may have been overcounted in the first place; prohibitionists in Colorado are trying to use taxes to push marijuana back underground; Michael Izbicki shares his decision to begin resisting taxes; and another “suspicious white powder” incident at an IRS facility.; There’s a “Google Hangout” about war tax resistance coming up next week. Also: the numbers have just come out about how many tax filers in 2012 were “lucky duckies” who owed no income taxes all year.; The IRS has released a new set of statistics that allow us to estimate how many “lucky duckies” in the U.S. filed tax returns showing that they did not owe any federal income taxes for all of 2013.; The IRS releases preliminary 2014 tax year numbers that show, among other things, how many “lucky duckies” filed tax returns showing that they owed no federal income tax all year.; War tax resisters to meet in Massachusetts in October. 27% of Americans pay no income or payroll tax. Separatists in Trieste launch a tax strike. An Argentine priest leads a road toll rebellion. A college student invents a chatbot that overturns $4 million in parking tickets. The I.R.S. continues to get spanked for civil forfeiture abuse. Bitcoins may be the next super tax haven. Another irate taxpayer pays his bill with bags of low-denomination money. And more news besides.; The IRS releases preliminary 2015 tax year numbers that show, among other things, how many “lucky duckies” filed tax returns showing that they owed no federal income tax all year.
How you can resist funding the government → what happens if the IRS knocks on my door? → or their quasi-private debt collection contractors?: ▶; ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦; The next big tax bill coming down the rails in Congress may restore the federal income tax deduction for state and local sales taxes and may authorize the I.R.S. to contract out some of its collection efforts to private bounty hunters.; Aboard the U.S.S. State of Denial, more about the I.R.S.’s new bounty hunters, and sixteen times in the last century the U.S. has invaded another country to overthrow its government — how many democracies have resulted?; Tax resistance is one of the techniques being used in the power struggle in the Ukraine. Also: the I.R.S. is going to start using bounty hunters from outside the agency to collect unpaid taxes.; The C.I.A. pulls out the “we don’t gotta if we don’t wanna” defense to the Freedom of Information Act. Also: the San Francisco Chronicle wonders how the I.R.S. will use private debt collection agencies.; The I.R.S. is changing its policy — employers no longer have to snitch on employees who claim lots of allowances on their W-4 forms. In addition: more seasonal articles about tax resistance. Also: can you get a reward for denouncing a tax evader to the I.R.S.? Is the estate tax about to die? Will the I.R.S. be able to use bounty hunters or won’t they? And how do folks who make over $200,000 a year manage to avoid taxes?; Impersonating the voice of authority and making it say absurd things may be the best way of discrediting it. Also: more details on how the I.R.S. will be using private collection agencies.; The I.R.S. is going to use private collection agencies to go after people who owe taxes. But these collection agencies will pocket 22–24% of what they collect. Maybe that’s better than letting Congress have it.; Tax Day has come and gone, and all over the country war tax resisters decided to send their money to charity rather than give it to the government.; NWTRCC Spring Conference meeting minutes, Christian criticism of the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund lobby, what the I.R.S.’s new private debt collection squads can’t do, and an important caveat about the retirement savings tax credit.; We seem to be stuck — the more you try to get out of the government’s clutches, the more tightly it squeezes. If you cooperate, even only when it demands at gunpoint, you make the leviathan stronger. The libertarian utopias and strategies of aloofness are chimerical. The only choice seems to be to plod ahead in the mud of this real world, choosing to side with the angels or the devils and making your decisions accordingly. Also: an update on the I.R.S. plan to use private debt collection agencies. And: eating healthily on a small budget.; The I.R.S. may start turning over some of its delinquent accounts to private debt collection agencies as early as this month. Also: Russell Kanning’s sentencing hearing is moved up to next week. And: what effect does socially-responsible stock picking actually have on the world outside of the stock exchange?; More details on the I.R.S. plan to use private debt collection agencies, including what these bounty hunters can and cannot do. Also: some practical tips from free range activists.; Donald Hughes proposes an interesting strategy for Canadian tax resisters — get a tax credit for being a gadfly candidate. Also: the government is going to lose a bunch of money by turning its tax collecting over to private companies, but the rules Congress uses to do its accounting provide bizarre incentives for doing it anyway.; A peek at the early days of the movement to legalize conscientious objection to military taxation in Britain. Also: a British anti-war group calls for a tax strike. And: kicking the I.R.S. while it’s down.; More details about how the I.R.S. is using private collection agencies. Also: just how big is the “defense” budget? And: how Popular Science reported the roll-out of the I.R.S.’s newfangled data processing system (the one they’re still using today) when it first came on-line in the early 1960s.; I’ve written an article promoting tax resistance for the latest issue of Simple Living News. Also: the National Taxpayer Advocate releases its report to Congress. And: a new website aims to keep a close eye on the I.R.S.; Ed and Elaine Brown gear up to martyr themselves for fatuous tax protester claptrap. Also: it costs about 26 cents for the I.R.S. enforcers to collect $1, and every year they lose $20 billion in unpaid taxes to the statute of limitations. And: Cindy Sheehan continues to beat the tax resistance drum.; Rushworth Kidder tries to define and develop moral courage in his book on the subject, but a whiff of sycophancy comes off the pages and spoils the project. Also: some advice on what to do if the I.R.S.’s private tax collection contractors come calling.; Calculate how much you’re paying for the Iraq War. Read (and watch) how the New Hampshire anti-torture-tax activists do their thing. Wonder if Congress will kill the I.R.S. private debt collector scheme. Bask in schadenfreude as you contemplate the I.R.S.’s paleolithic database technology.; The National Taxpayer Advocate issues its annual report, including withering criticism of the I.R.S.’s use of private debt collection agencies. Also: Dennis Kucinich joins Ron Paul in giving shout-outs to tax resisters from the campaign trail.; Is the end of the I.R.S. private debt collection program at hand? Also: The Picket Line is plugged on Soul-N-Black blog talk radio. And: a new Gay Tax Protest website.; The I.R.S. is systematically miscalculating its “failure to pay” penalty, and only calculates interest correctly about two times out of three, according to the National Taxpayer Advocate.; The I.R.S. abandons its experiment in outsourcing cases to private debt collection agencies. Also: more signs of a tax revolt against the sub-equal legal treatment of same-sex marriages.; The voluntaryist case against taxation. Greece erupts in a variety of tax resistance tactics. The I.R.S. hands Cindy Sheehan a summons. More private tax debt collection follies. To be free is not freedom from responsibility but freedom to take responsibility. Also: some background on the tax resistance campaign in Germany in 1848.; War tax resistance gatherings in New England and Las Vegas, the impending “shared responsibility” fines of Obamacare, private tax collection agencies are back in the U.S., and the death of “show-me-the-law” tax protester Irwin Schiff.; Private debt collectors may go after federal tax debts again and people behind on their taxes may have their passports revoked — two surprises tucked into the new Highway Bill. Also: Erica Weiland on the latest NWTRCC national gathering, a profile of tax resisting superlawyer Tony Serra, and another look at the Hobby Lobby decision and conscientious objection to military taxation.; Private collection agencies will begin to go after languishing I.R.S. tax cases next Spring. Also: a new issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter is out.; Recent links concerning tax resistance in the Onondaga Nation, Spain, southwest Oregon, Greece, Italy, and the American gig economy. A tax pro recommends you just hang up on the I.R.S.’s new private debt collectors. U.S. prisoners discuss the American war tax resistance movement. An upcoming documentary about war tax resister Larry Bassett. And: a spurious #NoTaxForBlacks movement rises out of the 4chan muck.; A new NWTRCC newsletter is out. Plus: Thoreau is trending. And: how you can help Greeks drink untaxed coffee, how Quakers organized a transatlantic boycott of slave-labor products, Gloria Steinem opens up about her renewed interest in tax resistance, and the I.R.S. gets audited.; See the scripts the I.R.S.’s new private debt collectors will be using. View your I.R.S. account on-line. A look at how Thoreau has aged. A note about a suffragette tax auction. Suspicious packages shut down I.R.S. buildings in Austin and Philadelphia. And the I.R.S. is forced to return hundreds of millions of dollars in ill-gotten gains.
Some historical and global examples of tax resistance → religious groups and the religious perspective → Quakers → 20^th–21^st century Quakers → Daniel Jenkins: ▶; ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦; War tax resisters Janine & Ben Martin Horst, Bryan Nelson and Ed Hedemann in the news. Also: a report on Dan Jenkins’s attempt to get the courts to recognize conscientious objection to military taxation. And: more than half of Americans receive significant income from government programs, and one-in-five work at a government job. Also: the People’s Life Fund of Northern California redirects thousands of federal tax dollars to community and activist organizations.; There have been many attempts to get U.S. courts to recognize a constitutional or implied statutory right to conscientious objection to military taxation, without success. Daniel Jenkins is trying again, with a new set of arguments.; Dubya says the Iraq War is like the Vietnam War, and the Democrats respond in their best Daffy Duck. Also: James Kilpatrick yawns-in an op-ed on Daniel Jenkins’ Supreme Court appeal. And: even if you don’t use your employer’s health plan, you can now pay for your health insurance with pre-tax dollars. Also: eight million Americans who are not legally obligated to pay federal income tax or file income tax returns do it anyway. And: 61% of sole proprietors in the U.S. underreport their income.; The Supreme Court declines to hear Daniel Jenkins’s appeal in which he asserted a Constitutional right to conscientious objection to military taxation. Also: the I.R.S. refunded only $3.8 billion of the $40 billion in long distance telephone excise tax they’d illegally collected. That’s what we get for letting them devise their own refund plan.; A new edition of NWTRCC’s newsletter features an article I wrote on how to craft a persuasive and motivating tax resistance message, updates on Daniel Jenkins’s legal battles for conscientious objection to military taxation, notes from the New England war tax resistance gathering, and more. Also: the “economic stimulus” package — what will it mean for tax resisters like me?; War tax resisters bask in the news media spotlight on Tax Day, including coverage from Portland, Oregon; Berkeley, California; the Lower Hudson Valley of New York; Vermont; and St. Louis, Missouri.; Ruth Benn reports back from the 12th International Conference on War Tax Resistance and Peace Tax Campaigns in Manchester, England.; War tax resisters Frank Donnelly, Larry Dansinger, and Dan Jenkins on the radio (here’s a podcast). Also: Villa Nueva, Argentina is blanketed with tax resistance pamphlets, and everyone is dodging blame. And: the I.R.S. begs Congress for more money so it can answer its tax assistance phone line 71% of the time after an average 698-second hold (seriously, those are the agency’s goals for this year if it gets more funding).; Conscience Studio is a Quaker-oriented group that focuses on living life conscientiously. They have a service program centered on development and human rights issues in Indonesia, and a strong war tax resistance focus.; Some miscellaneous items of note from the 14th International Conference on War Tax Resistance and Peace Tax Campaigns in Bogotá.; The few mentions of war tax resistance in the Friends Journal in 2007 were mostly looks at war tax resisters from Quaker history, though there was some mention of Daniel Jenkins’s ongoing attempt to get the courts to discover a Constitutional right to conscientious objection to military taxation.; After noting several years of dwindling coverage of war tax resistance in the Friends Journal, it was a pleasant surprise to see that the magazine devoted its March 2008 issue to the topic.; There was a bit of an anti-war tax resistance backlash in the Friends Journal in 2009.; After a thirty-year renaissance of war tax resistance, the Society of Friends seems to have slipped into another Forgetting period. How did this happen, and what can be done about it?

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