A few more things of interest that passed through my RSS aggregator and email inbox while I was away:
- George Monk and Molly Schaffnit went off-the-grid and back-to-the-land, motivated in part by their desire to live under the tax line on a lower income to avoid contributing to the U.S. military. The Charleston Daily Mail tells their story. Also: they have a web site.
- Patrick O’Neill comments on the sentencing of war tax resister Frank Donnelly.
- Murray Rothbard examines the 17th century French tax rebellion of the Croquants.
- The IRS is getting meaner, but that doesn’t mean they’re getting any more money. The Taxpayer Advocate noted: “, the IRS has increased lien filings by about 475 percent and levies by about 600 percent, yet inflation-adjusted revenue raised by the IRS Collection function has actually declined by about seven percent over that period.” Another recent report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration tells a similar story: in the IRS brought in less money from collections, and left more delinquent accounts stranded, while at the same time ramping up its use of collection enforcement tools.
