Learn about the picket and sit-in protest I led at the ceremony of the Burning Man, about the time I conducted a wedding wearing little but a penis gourd, about the time I made an unwise dismount from a moving freight train, about my “Arm the Homeless” campaign… and a bit about my tax resistance, too.
Some bits and pieces from here and there:
Remember that Litopia After Dark podcast I was on a few days back?
Co-host Peter Cox tried to spark some controversy by calling war tax resistance an “elitist” stand.
I wasn’t quite sure what he was going on about, but I think he was implying that it’s elitist to prioritize your own ethical limits on how you want your money spent over the government’s determination of where it thinks people’s money should be spent (particularly, perhaps, when the government has some degree of democratic legitimacy).
Erica Weiland responds at War Tax Talk to the question: “Is War Tax Resistance Elitist?” …and wonders if some people are afraid of becoming better people because they don’t want others to think of them as “holier than thou.”
Have you got any protest plans ?
If so, NWTRCC wants to know about it.
They compile a list of such actions for their annual Tax Day press release, which can help you get a little more buzz.
In a fairly repulsive bit of political theater, Congress is raking the IRS over the coals for its use of civil forfeiture to seize money from people without convicting them — or even charging them — with a crime.
What makes this repulsive is that it’s Congress that designed the civil forfeiture authorization, fully intending that it be abused in this way.
It’s entirely in their power to pass a less-unjust law, but they chose to pass a more-unjust one instead… and now they pretend to be champions of civil liberties, pontificating about how unfair the IRS is being by using the law as it was designed.