Some historical and global examples of tax resistance → religious groups and the religious perspective → Episcopal Church → Thaddeus Bennett

Some quotes from tax resisters this year:

“I just celebrated Jesus’s Easter victory over death, so I won’t pay for killing. Religious freedom is at the very foundation of our nation and it’s against the law to love your enemies and make a living. I love America, but I love Jesus and humanity more.” ―Thad Crouch

“Nobody should undertake tax resistance without understanding the risks. But there are also risks involved in passively cooperating with our own fleecing, or our own demise. And it’s simply amazing that more of us don’t look closely at which risk is greater.” ―Geov Parrish

“We are war tax resisters because we have discovered some doubt as to what belongs to Cæsar and what belongs to God, and have decided to give the benefit of the doubt to God.” ―John K. Stoner

“I knew my relationship with my soul and my God was not going to be okay if I was paying for the military budget.” ―Rev. Thaddeus Bennett

The Rutland Herald profiles some war tax resisters from Vermont:

Shortly before performing the , the Rev. Thaddeus Bennett wrote a letter to the Internal Revenue Service explaining why, once again, he only was paying 51 percent of his federal taxes.

For , Bennett, a Newfane resident and pastor of St. Mary’s in the Mountains Episcopal Church in Wilmington, hasn’t paid the part of his federal income taxes equal to the military portion of the federal government’s budget.…

Bennett started the practice soon after he was ordained in , and said he sees the practice as a natural offspring of his Christian beliefs and his activist nature. He said he finds inspiration from Jesus when he said, “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s.”…

…Luise, who asked that her last name not be used, said she lives frugally to get by.

“I wanted to do this legitimately, so I changed my life to a point where I don’t make enough money to pay taxes,” she said. “I had to do something because I could not continue supporting that.”