Donald Hughes proposes an interesting strategy for Canadian tax resisters. Apparently, in Canada you can get a tax credit (up to $650 or so) for donating money to the campaigns of political candidates.
Hughes suggests that tax resisters either register as “gadfly” candidates, or ally with a “gadfly” candidate to spend these campaign contributions on advertising for their causes, in a way that is ostensibly election-oriented but really designed to promote the causes.
“[T]his could be a substantial guerrilla advertising campaign on one or a handful of issues,” Hughes writes. “Cleverly done, you could easily multiply this through with free media and word of mouth. Obviously it is no substitute for other types of organizing, I just think it is an interesting way to both reduce your taxes while promoting your beliefs, without getting thrown in jail.”
