Some historical and global examples of tax resistance → Israel (see also Palestine) → Palestinians in East Jerusalem

Tax resistance news from hither and yon:

• American war tax resisters are fond of pointing out the outrageous sums the U.S. government spends on the military, and the various ways that government tries to hide the price tag by disguising military spending as being something else (for example the recent $53 billion domestic computer chip industry subsidies). Sometimes the deception is extra-clumsy. Here’s a great example from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis:

  

  Notice how all the military budgets are plotted in the same space on the same graph, but the U.S. budget gets its own separate Y-axis? Here’s how it looks if everything is plotted using the same Y-axis:

  

  Expect this graph to show up in many future “how to lie with statistics” slide decks.
• Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem have launched a tax strike and other civil disobedience actions to protest an accelerating campaign of “harassment and aggression” by Israeli police.
• The newly-Republican House Ways and Means Committee hopes to make the IRS squirm. And so they will have a steady stream of excuses for outrage and maybe some televised hearings, they have created their own on-line IRS Whistleblower Complaint Submission form, meant “[f]or IRS agency personnel interested in providing… information regarding any wrongdoing within the IRS or misuse of taxpayer information.”
• The human resistance against the traffic ticket robot hordes continues apace. Highwaydroids were shot in Italy, torched in Martinique, toppled in France, and painted blind in Belgium in recent weeks. Others chopped down in Martinique, burned and blinded in Germany, smashed in Italy, downed and charred in France, smeared in Germany, painted in Italy, necklaced in England, blinded and toppled in Canada, consigned to the flames in Martinique, battered in Germany, and toppled, torched, and painted in France.
• There’s a new NWTRCC newsletter out. Among the news: the group plans to hold its first post-covid in-person national conference this Spring in Indiana.
• Here’s another example of “a suspicious package” containing white powder (which turned out to be harmless sodium carbonate) causing a hazmat evacuation at an IRS building.