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The tax bucks stop here - Resisters withhold payment in protest of U.S. sending troops to Iraq
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| 4/3/7
| Pia Sarkar
Posted on 04/03/2007 7:45:54 AM PDT by SmithL
Dorothy Hansen used to pay her taxes faithfully every year -- until the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Since then, the 87-year-old Sebastopol resident has stopped filing her income tax returns to show her disapproval of the war.
"I am very sure that I don't want to have any part in killing people and I certainly don't want a part in any wars that do just that," Hansen said.
With the tax-filing deadline just two weeks away, some Bay Area residents are using it as an opportunity to protest the war by withholding their tax dollars to fund it.
Known as war tax resisters, they consider it an act of civil disobedience. Some withhold only a symbolic portion of what they owe -- $10.40, for example, to represent the 1040 tax form -- while others, like Hansen, refuse to pay anything at all. Many will redirect their tax dollars to a charity of their choice.
The risks can be costly if a resister is caught. The Internal Revenue Service recently increased the penalty for people who fail to pay their taxes to $5,000 from $500. Some resisters have had their wages garnisheed or property seized.
"There is no law that permits taxpayers to refuse to file a tax return or refuse to pay their taxes based on an estimate of what the government spends on programs or policies with which they disagree on moral, ethical, religious or other grounds," the IRS said in a statement. "These frivolous positions are variations of arguments taxpayers have made in the past about religion and taxation, and that courts have repeatedly rejected."
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: gotojail; renderuntocaesar; sanfranciscovalues
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Elizabeth Boardman is among those refusing to pay part of their taxes this year. She plans to withhold 41 percent.
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posted on
04/03/2007 7:45:59 AM PDT
by
SmithL
To: SmithL
Good luck with that sister....
To: SmithL
Note to IRS, check out Dorothy Hansen....
To: SmithL
Liberals are idiots. What about tax dollars that go to Planned Parenthood and are used to kill unborn babies. In the whacked out liberal world that’s ok.
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posted on
04/03/2007 7:49:31 AM PDT
by
A message
(Liberalism does not breed survivors)
To: SmithL
Conservatives should refuse to pay taxes because the federal government is spending it on unconstitutional budget items.
Yeah... that’ll work.
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posted on
04/03/2007 7:49:48 AM PDT
by
MrB
(You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
To: Tijeras_Slim
So I guess she also didn’t pay taxes from 1940-’44. Or during much of the 50’s, sixties and early 70’s and again in the 80’s and then again in the mid-nineties? Hey IRS, go get her, for once I’m root’n for you!
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posted on
04/03/2007 7:50:32 AM PDT
by
marlon
To: SmithL
the 87-year-old Sebastopol resident.
I'm betting she has a zero tax liability anyway.
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posted on
04/03/2007 7:50:52 AM PDT
by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
To: Tijeras_Slim
Um... but there’s plenty of things I don’t agree with the majority with respect to how our taxes are spent. Can I just stop paying my taxes because I disagree with the majority? Of course not and I believe that’s been tested in court before. Why don’t you just secede from the union... oh wait that’s been tested too. Boo freakin' hoo. I guess you'll just have to respect the will of the majority. ;-)
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posted on
04/03/2007 7:52:58 AM PDT
by
rhombus
To: SmithL
I think this is a great idea.
I urge ALL LIBERALS not to pay their taxes.
Then when they end up in jail and are felons -they can’t vote!
(Well, in some cities they can’t vote.)
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posted on
04/03/2007 7:53:49 AM PDT
by
Basheva
To: SmithL
If she gets away with it?
I'm against all federal government social programs. Therefore, I would be tax exempt, too.
As a matter of fact, we'd all be tax exempt. I'm sure there's something every American disagrees with. I think a tax revolt is a great idea. The only way to kill our massive, oppressive government beast is to starve it to death. I'm all for it.
I would donate to the military fund, though. National security is about the only government system I support.
To: SmithL
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posted on
04/03/2007 7:56:07 AM PDT
by
IllumiNaughtyByNature
(I buy gas for my Hummer with the Carbon Offsets I sell on Ebay!)
To: SmithL
For some reason this reminds me of a King of the Hill episode:
“Well, ‘33 to ‘45, FDR was President, so I was on the welfare. Then in the ‘60s you had Kennedy and LBJ, so I was on the welfare, and ‘77 to ‘81, Jimmy Carter was in the White House, so I was on the welfare.”
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posted on
04/03/2007 7:57:01 AM PDT
by
retrokitten
(praying for Tony)
To: SmithL
Hopefully, these same people will protest the “corrupt electoral process” by not voting. Maybe they will realize “we never asked to be born” and commit suicide.
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posted on
04/03/2007 7:58:42 AM PDT
by
Brad from Tennessee
("A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.")
To: SmithL
I’m interested what kind of income an 87 year old lady can have. I wonder if it’s “Earned Income”?
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posted on
04/03/2007 7:59:06 AM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: SmithL
Anyone that is an enemy of the personal income tax is a great American and a Friend of the People.
That said, taxes should and must be paid but
; for you and
you alone own yourself, a self-evident and inalienable natural right.
All you need to know and should learn immediately is here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4312730277175242198
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posted on
04/03/2007 8:01:17 AM PDT
by
Hostage
(I'm a Fredhead and I vote!)
To: SmithL
“I am very sure that I don’t want to have any part in killing people and I certainly don’t want a part in any wars that do just that,”
Now forgive me I am young so I was not personally around for much of the wars of the twentieth century, but for those who were can I ask you a question? Did any of them involve tickle fights?
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posted on
04/03/2007 8:06:59 AM PDT
by
spikeytx86
(Pray for Democrats for they have been brainwashed by their fruity little club.)
To: SmithL
The IRS probably figured, why harass an 87-year-old lady? In a few years we can send a tax bill to her estate.
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posted on
04/03/2007 8:08:37 AM PDT
by
ikka
To: Tijeras_Slim
Some nuts did this during the Vietnam War, and would up in prison.
To: SmithL
The IRS can seize bank accounts,auction real estate and do all sorts of other fun stuff.
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posted on
04/03/2007 8:30:57 AM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
To: Basheva
I agree, lets hope it catches on!
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