Here’s another rare example of paleocon tax resistance in the Vivien Kellems / J. Bracken Lee mold, from the Hendersonville, North Carolina Times-News:
Foe of Income Tax Refuses Bid for Bond, Jailed
Chicago, . (U.P.) — Mrs. Irene Whetsone, fiery opponent of the federal government in income tax matters, was free after a professional bondsman put up the required $1,500 bond.
Mrs. Whetsone, 55, went to jail rather than pay a $1,400 income tax payment for and said she would “sit in jail for six months” rather than pay the amount. She was jailed for contempt .
Federal Judge J. Sam Perry, who said when sentencing Mrs. Whetsone that he would rather send himself to jail, offered to let her sign her own bond with her daughter as security.
Mrs. Whetsone shouted at Perry that she would not sign her own bond “and I do not want my own daughter to be surity on my bond.”
Mrs. Whetsone has refused to pay the eight-year-old tax bill on the grounds that the Constitution of the United States does not allow tax-collected funds to be used to aid foreign countries.
If you’re researching, note that most sources give her name as “Whetstone.” I wasn’t able to find much about her in free, on-line sources, though there are some references in Google Books snippets and pay-per-view Chicago Tribune archives that I didn’t delve into.
