'War on tax' waged against costs of war

[deadparrot]

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Like most Americans, Peter Smith and his wife, Ellyn Stecker, sit down each year to fill out a federal tax form. Then they write a check to the U.S. Treasury for half the sum in the "amount you owe" box.

They are among thousands of Americans who refuse to pay part or all of their federal taxes as a protest against war and military spending. "It takes two things to fight a war: people and money," says Smith, 67, a retired math and computer science teacher. "I can't refuse anymore to go, but I certainly can refuse to send the money."

The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee says about 10,000 people "resist" paying taxes. The group plans demonstrations in Washington and 24 states Monday against the Iraq war.

Other tax protesters contend that the Constitution's 16th Amendment, which was adopted in 1913 to give Congress the power to collect income taxes, is illegitimate because it was not ratified by the required three-fourths of the states. Courts have ruled repeatedly against this argument.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-04-13-tax-war_x.htm

[bluestateguy]

1. I would just like a checkoff form

Let the conservatives pay for the war, so I can wash my hands of it all. I'll pay for the National Endowment for the Arts, and they can send their money to George Bush's military.

[janx]

2. ...

:pals:

[Skink]

3. I thought the "War money" was the borrowed pass on later stuff..

[Chemical Bill]

10. I'd support that too. n/t

[Up2Late]

4. I'm just refusing to get a new Job in protest. I haven't paid any Fed Tax

...since 2002. Plus with this "great economy," even when I am looking there's nothing.

I've run though my savings though, so re-education is about my only hope now at 42 (lost my previous career to digital technology).

[rodeodance]

5. good luck to you.

[toopers]

6. This is why we need the fair tax . . .

If we really want to protest, stop buying. It takes the power away from the politician.

[Bandit]

7. BS only fair to the wealthy or upper income

What is fair about a regressive tax? It may make filing "easy" but it certainly is not fair. ten percent of a person's income that makes a hundred thousand dollars certainly has much less impact upon them than ten percent of someone's income making eighteen thousand dollars a year..

[toopers]

8. What's fair is that . . .

you are not penalized for saving or earning income or becoming independent. You are only penalized if you consume/over consume.

[Supersedeas]

9. Hawthornian protest?