Some historical and global examples of tax resistance → religious groups and the religious perspective → Buddhists → Jesse Davis

A few short bits from here-and-there:

• Jed Lipinski has a war tax resistance article in The Brooklyn Rail featuring Ruth Benn, Ed Hedemann, Lily Dalke, and Jesse Davis.
• Peace Pundit shares some take-away from a recent war tax resistance conference.
• The Ojai Post ruminates on the bloated military budget and what taxpayers can do about it.
• John Dear, speaking at a recent Pax Christi conference, urged his listeners: “If we are serious, we have to move into tax resistance.”

A new edition of NWTRCC’s newsletter, More Than a Paycheck, is out. The contents include:

• “Bringing Light into Darkness” — Marcus Page and Mike Butler discuss their civil disobedience action at Los Alamos National Laboratory in support of the 2008 War Tax Boycott
• Some brief notes on the “economic stimulus” checks, frivolous filing warnings from the IRS that some war tax resisters have been receiving, the IRS’s expanded snitch payment program, limits on the IRS’s ability to seize pensions before they come due, and increasing IRS interest in offshore bank accounts
• Some news about the status of the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Act and about Joshua Goldberg’s war tax resistance in Canada
• Notes from resisters, including Greg Reagle responding to critics who say that war tax resistance isn’t effective, Melissa Jameson relating stories about how her resistance relates to those around her, and a summary of the story of resister Charles Merrill
• A plug for my book We Won’t Pay!: A Tax Resistance Reader
• Some committee business including an announcement of the upcoming national meeting in Eugene, Oregon in November and an invitation to readers to help shape the future direction of the 2008 War Tax Boycott project
• Jay Sordean’s review of Smedley Butler’s 1935 book War Is a Racket
• A profile by and of A. Jesse Jiryu Davis, who takes a zen approach to ethical living and tax resistance