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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....

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To: Sully- who wrote (25104)7/5/2007 5:39:22 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
No Wonder They Don’t Mind Higher Taxes…

By Texas Rainmaker on Abortion

…apparently they don’t pay them anyway.

<<< War tax resistance, popularized by Henry David Thoreau in the 19th century and by singer Joan Baez and others during the Vietnam War, is gaining renewed interest among peace activists upset over the Iraq war.

“Clearly this year we definitely had more people calling, sending e-mails about how they decided to start resisting,” said Ruth Benn, coordinator of the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee in New York.

Based on the committee’s mailing list and reports from numerous groups it works with around the country, Benn estimates 8,000 to 10,000 Americans refuse to pay some or all of their federal taxes over war objections. Internal Revenue Service officials say they don’t have figures for that specific category, but earlier this year reported an overall noncompliance rate of 16.3 percent and estimated the annual tax gap at about $345 billion. >>>


Leave it to liberals to protest the government funding those who protect Americans from criminals who target innocent victims, while fully supporting government-funded killing of innocent lives
[see Planned Parenthood link below].

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