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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (206201)	10/17/2006 12:15:41 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I don't think I understand what you are talking about, but I ge the impression that a simple "Don't use my taxes for War" form is not an option...In Canada, Menonites objected to the use of their taxes in military on religious grounds of being pacifists. As a result (I think) there is now a form (or a checkbox) that says you are not allowing the government to use your taxes in the military. In the grand scheme of things, it really made little difference in Canada; the government would use the menonite taxes in say education and more of someone else's for the military. (the menonites would still pay the same taxes, it is just that their specific $ was not to be used for military...I think). But if such a tool is available in the US, the government would have a very hard time funding an unpopular war, if enough people refused to fund it.