More than thirty protesters were arrested while trying to storm the barricades surrounding the front entrance to the IRS headquarters in Washington, D.C.
“Just as military recruiters supply bodies for the war, the IRS supplies the funding,” stated New York City WRL organizer Ed Hedemann. “So, I’m doing my part in disrupting that relentless flow of money by standing in front of the IRS entrance and by refusing to send my taxes to the IRS.”
Among the organizations sponsoring this part of the protests commemorating were NWTRCC, War Resisters League, United for Peace & Justice, and Code Pink.
And speaking of Code Pink, they continue to draw new tax resisters to sign up for their Don’t Buy Bush’s War campaign. Some of the latest signers gave the following “signing statements:”
- Thank you Code Pink for organizing this media communication. Our politicians don’t have to listen to our votes when we keep paying our taxes. Bravo!
- anonymous, Burlington, Vermont
- If the idiot Republicans and their minions want this war, they can pay for it. And no soldiers ‘died for me’; they died because they volunteered to enter an immoral war.
- John Bisceglia, Bellingham, Washington
- I’ve refused to pay taxes for over 20 years now, and I doubt our inept government and the IRS will ever be able to find all of us tax resisters. There are simply too many ways to make money and keep it out of banks, and many ways to live without personally owning any property.
- Scott Johnston, Cincinnati, Ohio
- War. Murder. Destruction. Illegal occupation of a sovereign nation. Extraordinary rendition. Secret Prisons. Torture. Illegal wiretapping. More spending on military than all other countries combined. And I’m helping to pay for it. Not any more!
- Patrick West, Boulder, Colorado
- I am a Conscientious Objector to all war, and I have been openly refusing federal war taxes every year since ! IRS never succeeded in collecting a dime from me until I began receiving Social Security checks in ! Now they take 15% from each check, but I continue each year to refuse to pay for war and weapons.
- Robin Harper, Wallingford, Pennsylvania
- I’m going to withhold $100 anyway; get enough signatures and I’m in for the full whatever-godawful-number-it-is percent of my taxes.
- Friend Reynolds, Chicago, Illinois
- Thank you. Every penny I have ever given to support the things that are meaningful and positive in the world is utterly negated — and then some — every time I pay my taxes.
- Gregory Dicum, San Francisco, California
