Some tax resistance news from here and there:
- Caleb Shenk, a junior accounting major, was a contestant at the C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest. He won the second-place award for his speech on “Protesting Taxation as a Peace-Seeking Accountant.”
- The “Don’t Pay” movement targeting utility bill hikes has spread to Lebanon.
- Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul raised a stink when he suggested that Russian taxpayers bear some of the blame for the Ukraine invasion: “This is Russia’s war, not just Putin’s. Putin decided to invade Ukraine. But other Russians, not Putin, are killing people in Ukraine. Other Russians continue to pay taxes to finance those killings. Some brave Russians are protesting the war. Most are not.”
- Thousands of workers from dozens of labor unions in Sri Lanka have gone on strike to protest IMF-demanded austerity measures and tax hikes.
- Catalan separatists are again encouraging people to redirect their taxes from Madrid to the Republican Solidarity Action Fund.
- About 150,000 employees of the U.S. federal government collectively owe $1.5 billion dollars in overdue taxes.
- The human war on traffic ticket robots continues, giving us practice perhaps for the coming struggle against the artificially-intelligent drone hordes. The latest mechanical victims included a camera muffled by packing tape in Italy, cameras smashed and blinded in Germany, dozens burned, toppled, blinded, or torched in France, others smeared, battered, painted, and blocked with haybales in Germany, and more chopped down, burned, and blinded in France.
