I want names of Americans who oppose this war removed from tax rolls

[Generic Other]

Anyone else?

[JohnnyBoots]

1. Good F'ing luck brother!

[Generic Other]

3. Well if pro-war folks remove crosses from Camp Casey

we who support peace should not be forced to pay for their follies.

[JohnnyBoots]

6. I totally agree, but making that happen is almost impossible.Plus

imagine the right wing demagogues spin on that, it would do More harm than good in terms of bringing people into the tent....and if we don't pay taxes it is an excuse to put all us anti war folks in jail.

[growlypants]

2. I'll back ya, but it aint gonna work. And you might get arrested for

sedition or teason or some other made up excuse

[Generic Other]

4. I am trying to give as much as I can to charity so I can deduct

as much as possible. I vow to take my tax dollar out of Bush's hand in any way possible.

Cindy has placed half her tax money in an escrow account because of her opposition to paying a war tax.

[JohnnyBoots]

8. Actually very Christian of you...if only the pro war freepers would

follow suit.

[jmatthan]

13. Can you tell me where you read this

about Cindy and the escrow account?

[Generic Other]

17. She said it on one of the radio shows

It might have been on Randi or Ed. I also listen to Bradshow.

Best I can do to pin it down. Sorry.

[FloridaPat]

15. Other things you can do. Start a home based business. One that

would need lots of travel. If you have kids, you can employ your kids and they wouldn't have to pay taxes on the money and neither would you (if it's under the $3000). There are a ton of other tax breaks you get with your own business. I could go on and on.

[Generic Other]

18. How about a PEACE business?

If I sell the promotion of peace, can I use my travel bucks to go to peace demonstrations?

[FloridaPat]

22. You've got it!

Plus, when you talk to customers in restaurants, or book people or whatever, you can deduct that money. Mileage for everything you do realted to you business. Set up a web site a 1/2-100% of your isp bill comes off. Use your cell phone for business? Take that off too.

[Generic Other]

24. And all these years I have gladly paid my taxes like a good sheeple

The idea of creating a PEACE business is one all DUers should explore.

[jean]

5. my RWingnut sister-in-law doesn't want her taxes supporting abortion OR

public schools.

[FloridaPat]

7. People did that during the Vietnam war. Didn't hear how it worked out.

1/2 the budget went to the military, so people only sent in 1/2 their taxes and told the IRS why.

[Generic Other]

11. Cindy says she did this last year and she hasn't had any problems

Anyone know how one goes about doing this?

I pay mucho bucks to the IRS. I want to pay much less next year.

[FloridaPat]

14. It takes the IRS awhile to catch up on things like this. They have 3

years. Indefinately if you did something illegal.

Here's how you do it.

If you're an employee, increase the number of dependents you have until you paying 1/2 of what you did before or you have 9 dependents. I think 10 is the magic number where you get a call from the IRS.

When you fill out your taxes and you get to the bottom line about how much you owe, you send the governments part to them and the rest goes to an escrow type account. That way, if the IRS charges you, you have this account that is set up to protest the war.

[stellanoir]

9. yup

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4473625&mesg_id=4473625

[Generic Other]

12. Good letter!

The sound of money being sucked out of our country to feed the war profiteers is intolerable to me.

[stellanoir]

16. Whoosh

Me too.

Though I figure I better do several more edits before I do anything with it since it garnered so few responses.

[Benhurst]

10. In the 18th Century you only got fire protection if your house

had a medallion showing you had paid for the service.

I think the practice should be instituted for military protection.

I, for one, would gladly forgo the protection of the military such as it was on 9/11 and assume the responsibility for defending my own property.

[renie408]

19. I have said the same thing about atheists...

If this is a "Christian Nation" and I am an atheist, does that mean I still have to pay taxes here?

[ultraist]

20. We should have a choice of where OUR money goes

I'd gladly pay the same amount as long as it went to some org that fed hungry children, provided medical care for those who cannot afford it or some other cause that I agreed with. Those of us who oppose war, should not be forced to pay for it. It makes me sick to think my tax money is going to kill Iraqi civilians.

[Generic Other]

21. Sounds like Cindy agrees with us

She has placed half her taxes in an escrow account.

[FloridaPat]

23. That's why we have elections. Congress then decides where the

money goes.