Some historical and global examples of tax resistance → United States → “Don’t Buy Bush’s War”, 2007–08 → Aileen Terra

More from the signers of the “No War With My Money!” pledge at Don’t Buy Bush’s War:

It is we who fund this war. It is we who must stop it.
Mark Landau, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Code Pink Tennessee along with PeaceRoots Alliance and the Peace Coalition and other peaceful people will join in tax protests in Middle Tennessee to stop funding the imperialistic adventures of the Bush administration.
Elizabeth Barger, Summertown, Tennessee
This is such a great idea.
Nathan Hartle, Lincoln, Nebraska
I will not allow money earned by my own labor to be used to purchase bullets and bombs. I will not contribute to squandering the lives of our troops or the atrocities done to the people of Iraq. I pledge to withhold the 7% of my taxes that is funneled into the war machine. I’m not buying Bush’s war! I’m not buying the lies, and I won’t buy the ammunition!
Jamie Romano, Tujunga, California
Have been resisting for years, through NWTRCC. Sure it’s scary, but it’s the best decision I’ve ever made.
Carol Wald, Brooklyn, New York
This is a brave step that we are all taking to put an end to war, which is a major threat to human evolution
Allen Thibault, Riverside, California
War is legalized murder for profit, by proxy. Reprehensible and pathetic. Protecting freedom is important, but killing for the purpose to supposedly protect while promulgating the illusion of danger and control by fear is the work of miscreants and criminals.
Chris Torri, Aliso Viejo, California
Thank you for being brave. I pray every day for strength to be the peace I want to see in the world as Gandhi wisely said.
Catalina, Whittier, California
Thanks for making it possible for millions of people to join in ending this and all wars by by simply refusing to pay for war.
Susan Nash, Idyllwild, California
I refuse to participate in funding a private army of war profiteers in an illegal, immoral, occupation of another country.
Michael DeBenedictis, Long Beach, California
I want to be like the ‘rich folks’ who aren’t expected to pay taxes to support this phony baloney war!
Gregg Noblett, Mechanicville, New York
Is it not time to evict fear from our minds and to no longer condone violence as a solution? If not now, with the pillaging of our rights and the spending of much of our tax dollars on presidential chess games, then when will we awake from this malaise?
Christopher Schaedler, Richland, Washington
Yes, no more taxes for war. But more than this — we must shift radically how we live on this our only Earth…
Alby Baker, Port Townsend, Washington
further!
Jacques Seronde, Flagstaff, Arizona
I will not pay for war mongering any more.
Aileen Terra, Cleveland, Ohio
I’m joining the rich who don’t have to pay taxes to protest this war!
Greg Sullivan, San Diego, California