Two Irish legislators who were convicted of participating in a direct action against U.S. armaments passing through the Shannon airport have refused to pay their fines. One of them, Clare Daly, told reporters: “We have no intention of paying a financial contribution to a State which allows this behaviour [the arms shipments] to continue.”
A man who calls himself “Squirrel” was arrested in Florida for phoning in a threat to destroy the IRS building in Miami.
Here’s an amusing story of one lonely man’s resistance to the state “bachelor
tax” on sex-discrimination grounds:
Montana Man Refuses to Pay Tax as Bachelor
Helena Falls,
Mont.,
— Declaring that
“spinsters are responsible for my not being married in their refusals of my
wooing in the past,” William Atsinger, 35, a member of the board of directors
of the Montana state fair, notified
the assessor of Chouteau county that he will refuse to pay the poll tax of $3
levied by the last legislature on bachelors. “Tax the spinsters of the same
age, and I will gladly pay, but otherwise it is class legislation and I stand
upon my rights,” he declared. “Furthermore, I refuse to get married to escape
jail, and I refuse to pay a bachelor tax to escape jail.”
The same item appeared in a number of newspapers but I didn’t see any
indication of which wire service sent it around or who authored it.
