On , UPI carried a long article by Steven W. Syre about tax resisters and constitutionalist tax protesters in the United States.
Most of the article concerns the “show me the law”-style tax protesters — folks like Charles Rielly, Paul A. Hein Jr., Irwin Schiff, Gordon S. Buttorff, Charles A. Dodge, and Alton Moss — and their various arguments and techniques. But there is also some mention of war tax resisters:
On , Brandeis University professor Paul Monsky was convicted on tax evasion charges in U.S. District Court in Boston. The 43-year-old math teacher did not pay taxes for six years to protest military spending. It took a jury less than two hours to decide Monsky was guilty of defrauding the government by claiming 42 exemptions, even though he attached explanations on his tax forms.
He faces a possible $500 fine and a one-year prison term when sentenced.
Bruce Chrisman, a Mennonite pacifist from Ava, Ill., made the same claim on his return and received a similar verdict .
Chrisman, an organic truck farmer who grows alfalfa sprouts, maintained his conscience as a Christian pacifist prohibits him from supporting killing, even indirectly through taxes to finance the military.
