[Editor’s Note: NWTRCC does not endorse any political party, but we do report and share about war tax resistance. NWTRCC Coordinator Lincoln Rice recently had a conversation with Kymone Freeman, who is the Green Party candidate running for the US House Non-Voting Delegate for the District of Columbia. The following was conversation between Kymone Freeman and… Continue reading
Book Review My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying In America By Ruth Braunstein, Princeton University Press (2025, 256 pp.) I quite enjoyed the YouTube video of Johnny Cash singing “After Taxes” with an amused air while he laments all the things he won’t be able to afford after the IRS takes its cut from… Continue reading
The IRS was already struggling with a deficit in staff and funds before the pandemic, but the pandemic accentuated these problems. They slowly recovered with extra funding and staffing during the Biden administration… only to suffer devastating cuts to staff and funding shortly after Trump took office for the second time. The remaining IRS staff… Continue reading
By Suzanne Belote Shanley and Brayton Shanley We resist paying taxes for war used to kill our country’s enemies, because as Christians, Jesus commands us to love our enemies. We resist paying taxes for war because war is a lethal, murderous sacrilege, a wanton killing of God’s gift of human life which threatens all life… Continue reading
NWTRCC’s May 2026 conference on Zoom attracted about 100 participants. Friday evening featured two half-hour sessions where participants could socialize in small groups based on themes offered during registration. We then separated into breakout rooms with themes suggested by participants during registration. One session was a bit more formalized and featured Socialist Washington State congressional… Continue reading
By H. A. Penner Kathy Boylan invited me to speak at the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker about war tax resistance for their March 6th clarification of thought. Around 30 persons were present. The group was composed of both young and old. The best part of the evening was the extensive and engaging group dialogue! There… Continue reading
It seems like everyday there is a new reason to engage in war tax refusal; it seems there are more people joining the ranks. News pundits and citizens alike have been equating the costs of war with the lack of social services throughout the US. Not surprisingly the initial costs of the war with Iran… Continue reading
The word “ungovernable” stuck in my mind after reading a review by Frida Berrigan of activist/historian Jeremy Varon’s recent book Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War. The book is a history of the movement to stop the war on terror, from right after the 9-11-2001 attacks on the U.S. to the invasion of… Continue reading
To commemorate the first anniversary of Trump’s inauguration, we will host a War Tax Resistance 101 on Zoom on Tuesday January 20th at 8p Eastern / 5p Pacific. Choose Democracy’s National Tax Strike will also be joining us for this session. Interest in war tax resistance continues to increase in the wake of ICE violence,… Continue reading
Even though the drumbeat for war in Venezuela had become louder and louder, the news on the morning of January 3rd came as a surprise to many. For months news was emerging about US troops amassing in the Caribbean and airstrikes on Venezuelan oil tankers. To date there have been 36 strikes with at least… Continue reading
By Betty Winkler I received a big surprise in early July of this year. A former professor of mine who followed my careers and with whom I maintained contact for fifty years, left me a modest “Inherited IRA” as one of several beneficiaries. She passed on suddenly, at age eighty-nine. I am honored by this… Continue reading
W-4 in the Digital Age and Private Collection Letters Adjusting a W-4 form through an online portal was a new WTR counseling question for me. Many of us longtime WTR counselors still rely on printed materials, so thanks to the counselee who introduced me to the online ADP system, the payroll service their company uses…. Continue reading