Although American Conservatives are more likely to complain about taxes than the leftish sorts, it’s pretty rare to see them go beyond complaining and on to resisting. (Unless you count the sovereign-citizen True Constitutionalist types, but to me they seem a whole other kettle of fish.)
But here’s an example from :
YAF Refuses to Pay Tax
Little Rock (AP) — Alan Leveritt, state chairman of the Young Americans for Freedom, said the YAF would refuse to pay a city privilege tax for publishing its newspaper, Essence, at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Leveritt said the annual $70 privilege tax on weekly and monthly newspaper publishers would force Essence and other small independent newspapers out of business.
He said he thought the tax also infringed on the First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
“We feel it is necessary for the financially weak, independent presses, left and right, to stand together in resistance to this repressive tax or face inevitable extinction,” Leveritt said in a prepared statement.
Leveritt called the constitutionality of the privilege tax system itself highly questionable.
The YAF was pretty much a red-white-and-blue right-wing outfit by this time. They had a libertarian wing at one point, but it was largely purged in .
