Articles on war tax resistance and the 2008 war tax boycott:
News story on the War Tax Boycott press conference
(May 3, 2008):
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Reports from 2008 Tax Day
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the country and links to media stories
- Why We Resist by Chris Hedges
- “The refusal to pay my taxes if we go to war with Iran, and the portion of my taxes spent on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan…”
- Why I’m a War Tax Resister by Eric Volpe
- “I am a war tax resister. I refuse to pay at least some of my federal taxes. Why? Because after years of examining the way things are…”
- Personally Defunding the War by Meteor Blades
- “We won’t wait anymore. Since Congress, particularly the congressional leadership, refuses to do so, my wife and I are personally defunding the war and occupation of Iraq…”
- How are we as Christians engaged in the world? by Abbie Coburn
- “I struggle with being an Episcopalian. I struggle with the priorities of what seems to me to too often be an antiquated, hierarchal structure…”
- Don’t Buy Bush’s War by Jodie Evans
- “How much of your tax payment this year would you like to allocate for waterboarding in Iraq or an invasion of Iran?…”
- No Taxes for War, The Nation Magazine blog
- “More and more Americans are fed up with watching their tax dollars support the greatest foreign policy disaster of our time…”
- Heartland: I Won’t Pay My Taxes If You Won’t Pay Yours by Nina Rothschild Utne
- “War tax resistance is far from a new idea. But there is a bold initiative brewing that has an elegantly simple new angle…”
- Hands Off Iran by Chris Hedges
- “I will not pay my income tax if we go to war with Iran. I realize this is a desperate and perhaps futile gesture…”
