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
A senior adviser in the Trump administration said that there is a 90% chance of war with Iran in the next few weeks. Starting a war with Iran has been a frequent talking point with this administration especially in the past month since overthrowing the head of state in Venezuela. Pentagon officials were able to… 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 Susan Miller President Trump has finally made a proclamation that I agree with. By renaming the Department of Defense, he tells the truth about what the department has been all along: a Department of War. I don’t believe that any of the wars that the United States has engaged in during my lifetime have… Continue reading
The headlines seem hard to navigate these days; change not just day to day but within the day. It has been difficult to keep track of all the different agencies getting cut, Health and Human Services this week, Education last week and FEMA while witnessing a new catastrophe weekly as a result of the climate… Continue reading
By Fay Salichou [Editor’s Note: This blog post was originally published on the website of Conscience: Taxes for Peace not War in the United Kingdom. A recording of the session can be found below.] On 3rd May 2025, we took part in a powerful global conversation hosted by the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee… 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 30, 2025, marked the 50th anniversary of the end of the U.S. war in Vietnam. The poem here recently surfaced in our files and is so appropriate for remembering…and for today. When will they ever learn? Hung Wen, North Vietnam: 1972* By Karen Lillis During an air raid an old man drops to his… Continue reading
I got all tangled up trying to write a blog about producing the WRL pie chart in light of the federal budget process chaos currently discombobulating Washington. As so often happens with new administrations, there was no Trump budget proposal to analyze in time for our tax day flyer, just lots of bluster from the… Continue reading
Post by Joshua Wrolstad [Editor’s Note: NWTRCC is a big tent organization that is composed of people with various political beliefs. We welcome blog post submissions on war tax resistance from many points of view. The publication of personal opinions expressed in these posts should not be construed as an endorsement by NWTRCC, which makes… Continue reading
“The military detention facility at Guantánamo Bay is a glaring, longstanding stain on the human rights record of the United States.” — Amnesty International Ridah Bin Saleh al-Yazidi was one of the first to arrive at the Guantánamo Bay military prison camp on January 11, 2002, captured as part of the U.S. “war on terror”…. Continue reading
This week marked the anniversary of wars largely paid for with US taxpayer money. Twenty- three years ago on October 7, the United States began bombing Afghanistan not even a month after the 9/11 attacks. Brown University’s Cost of War Project estimates that the United States spent $2.313 trillion on the war in Afghanistan between… Continue reading