[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
11/30/2023 01/06/2026 Office of the IRS I have been trying to write this letter for the better part of a year two and a half years. I have spent that time nearly daily reaching out to my elected representatives through multiple channels; while receiving less than a dozen form letter responses, clearly copy-pasted between the… 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
Today’s exciting topic is…..drum roll….capital gains! Ok, I admit it. I know very little about capital gains, but it is a question that has come up recently in WTR counseling, particularly among older antiwar activists. Many have had a low income and been glad to avoid paying for war. Suddenly a gift or inheritance drops… Continue reading
It’s hard to concentrate on day-to-day tasks of late. What with the weather, projects piling up around the house, worrying about the present and future, worrying I’m not doing enough, worrying that whatever I do is so minor in the face of it all… I’ve been to the U.S. Mission to the UN a few… Continue reading
By Karl Meyer I see two alternative visions that I call War Tax Protest and Resistance and War Tax Refusal. I distinguish these two basic approaches by an analogy with the behavior of electrical energy. Copper is a material that allows, but resists, the passage of electric currents. The process of resistance generates heat and… Continue reading
By David Gross [Editor’s Note: David Gross wrote the following article for his website after presenting on a panel about resisting taxes in the Trump era at NWTRCC’s May 2025 conference. It is reprinted here with permission. A recording of the entire session can be found below.] Yesterday I was on a panel concerning “Resisting… Continue reading
April 15, 2024 To whoever reads this: The United States’ unconscionable support of Israel to kill over 33,000 Palestinians, including 10,000+ children, in the last six months, breaks my heart. The US’ unconscionable participation in war, and in arming other nations for war, continues to break my heart. My calculations indicate that I owe $1,152…. Continue reading
HAROLD A. & BARBARA AKRON, PENNSYLVANIA Palm Sunday, 2025 Ways and Means Committee c/o Representative Jason Smith, Chairperson U.S. House of Representatives 1011 Longworth House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 We conscientiously object on religious grounds to the payment of that portion of our federal income taxes that supports war making and militarism—43% of the… Continue reading
We war tax resisters have a new challenge in front of us: the potential demise of the IRS. Just when they were ramping up the collection system after a decade of Congressional budget cuts and the pandemic lockdown, a new regime has swept into Washington hell-bent on shrinking the government. Or at least the parts… Continue reading