There Are Better Things to Buy than Bank Bailouts & Bunker Busters

Because… there are better things to spend my money on than bank bailouts & bunker busters, I’m a tax resister.

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How you can resist funding the government → the tax resistance movement → publications → posters: ▶; ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦; The I.R.S. brags that it is auditing more people this year than before, but a look at the numbers shows that most of this increase comes from small businesses and people making under $25,000 a year—millionaires seem nigh invulnerable. Also: war tax resistance propaganda posters hit the streets of San Francisco.; A wonderful how-to and why-to book on “Possum Living” by a 19-year-old who lives on the cheap with her father. Also: a letter from the Women’s Tax Resistance League of 1913.; An Oakland, California hardware store owner refuses to collect or remit sales tax in protest against the government’s failure to protect his community against violent crime. Also: a look at the I.R.S. enforcement numbers for last year. And: the “Death and Taxes” poster illustrating the 2008 U.S. Federal Budget is released.; While I was away: next week’s blockade of the I.R.S. headquarters, the anti-pizzo movement in Palermo, the death of long-time war tax resister Joanna Karl, tax resistance in Tanzania and in Maine, what the new economic stimulus plan means to low-income tax resisters in the U.S., a new war tax resistance poster, an argument that tax resistance may be a legal obligation in the U.S., war tax resistance as part of Christian conscientious objection, and how to be a foodie without breaking the bank.; Some news from the war tax resistance movement in Spain. Also, the former president of Catalonia says legal channels for improving the political status of Catalonia are a waste of time, so it’s time for a mass tax resistance campaign.; The Women’s Tax Resistance League produced a series of posters to propagandize their cause. They also came out in force at the unveiling of a new statue of John Hampden at Aylesbury.; Kate Harvey’s trial for tax resistance in 1913. “I am not resisting the Act as an Act. If it had come straight down from heaven I should resist it just the same. I am doing what every business man throughout the country does as a matter of course—I refuse to pay for goods which I cannot choose.”; What of the federal excise tax(es) on air travel? Especially in this travel-heavy holiday season, is there anything we can do to resist them? Also: a vintage war tax resistance poster, and a way the public can rate and view the ratings of I.R.S. personnel.

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