This Tax Day, A 23-Year-Old Refuses to Pay for War
by Sam Koplinka-Loehr, Philadelphia, PA Since I was born in 1991, the U.S. Government has been in a non-stop state of war, and has spent trillions of dollars on killing people overseas. As a young person growing up in the United States, I saw our schools faltering. I saw income inequality growing. I saw communities… Continue reading
Stephen Leeds
April 15, 2015 To: Senator Barbara Boxer Senator Diane Feinstein Rep. Nancy Pelosi Internal Revenue Service Center, San Francisco (with Form 1040) Commissioners of the Internal Revenue Service President Barack Obama Clerk, San Francisco Friends Meeting, Religious Society of Friends People’s Life Fund This letter concerns my IRS Form 1040 for calendar year 2014. I’m sending a… Continue reading
Susan Lannen
April 15, 2015 Dear Friends at the IRS, I will not be paying the amount that my tax returns state that I “owe” for 2014, because over 50% of the money collected would go toward military spending. As a conscientious objector to all war I just cannot do it. I know it doesn’t make sense… Continue reading
Sam Koplinka-Loehr
Since I was born in 1991, the U.S. Government has been in a non-stop state of war, and has spent trillions of dollars on killing people overseas. As a young person growing up in the United States, I saw our schools faltering. I saw income inequality growing. I saw communities struggling. And yet, the government… Continue reading
Elizabeth Boardman
To my federal legislators and my local paper Re War tax resistance Dear Friends, Today I have filed my IRS 1040. I have not included a check for the amount I still owe for 2014, about half of my total income tax bill. I am a member of the long-established Religious Society of Friends (Quakers),… Continue reading
Jason Mizula
The following is the letter I mailed to the IRS a few days before tax day about my reasons for not paying federal income tax. This is the first year since leaving the military that I have had taxable income, otherwise I would have done this sooner. Working under-the-table is a much simpler form of protest, and… Continue reading
Kevin Martonick (2015)
Dear IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, On this tax day I am thinking a lot about how about half of our taxes goes toward military spending. Actually, it is something on my mind quite often throughout the year. In the same way a conscientious objector refuses to fight in a war and our country provides a… Continue reading
David and Jan Hartsough (2015)
Dear Friends at the IRS, We cannot in conscience pay for the killing of other human beings or pay for war and preparations for war. Human life is too precious to drop bombs on people because we do not like their governments. Developing a new generation of nuclear weapons which could put an end to… Continue reading
“All they have to do is draft our dollars”: A Pre-Tax Day News Roundup
As Tax Day approaches, war tax resisters are making the news: Elizabeth Boardman’s case against the IRS was rejected by the 9th Circuit. Read Peter J. Reilly’s report in Forbes. Later that week, Mr. Reilly published another piece, discussing the types of people who don’t pay taxes: evaders, protesters, and resisters. Longtime war tax resister,… Continue reading
A Few Clicks to Support War Tax Resisters
In addition to turning out for a Tax Day event in your area, as long as you’re online, why not take a minute to support NWTRCC and get more connected to the war tax resistance movement? You can: 1) friend us on Facebook, join our Facebook group, like our Facebook page, follow us on Twitter,… Continue reading
A Transition is Inevitable
A Transition is Inevitable: A Review of David Hartsough’s Waging Peace: The Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist by Jason Rawn David Hartsough’s Waging Peace: The Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist delivers the best of what the title promises, with emphasis on the Waging and the Adventures. Beginning with a racist’s shaking knife at… Continue reading
New Video: Letters from War Tax Resisters
Hear three letters from war tax resisters to the IRS, family members, and the local newspaper. [closed captioning available] This year, as for many decades before, thousands of people around the country are refusing to pay some or all of their federal income taxes as a protest and/or an act of conscientious objection against the… Continue reading
