A UPI dispatch from :
700 Refuse to Pay Tax on Telephones As Protest to Viet
San Francisco (UPI) — A local political group says 700 persons are refusing to pay their federal excise tax on telephone bills in protest of the Vietnam War.
Alan Barnett, an organizer of Marin Associates, says the group’s purpose is to “test the legality of the tax, not to disobey it.”
San Francisco attorney Lloyd McMurray said he is coordinating the hundreds of suits aimed at the federal government.
“We’re not asking the court to enjoin the prosecution of the war,” said McMurray. “We’re asking it to determine whether this taxing power is legal in an undeclared war.”
