Posted on 11/23/2007 8:21:24 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Former NYT Bureau Chief: I Won't Pay Taxes If U.S. Battles Iran By Matthew Sheffield Created 2007-11-23 10:10
Considering how many hyperventilating media leftists broke their promises to leave the country if George W. Bush won reelection in 2004, I'm not exactly holding out hope we'll see the IRS arrest former New York Times bigwig Chris Hedges (file photo at right) anytime soon.
Hedges, if you recall, was the paper's former Middle Eastern bureau chief who became more famous (infamous rather) for his lengthy anti-war diatribe during a 2003 speech [1] to graduates of Rockford College.
The devoutly left-wing Hedges has hardly stopped proclaming his bona fides since that time, even writing a book comparing American religious conservatives to the Taliban [1]. Today, our hero is busy concerning himself with the conspiracy theory that the United States will soon invade Iran. If that proves to be the case, the unbiased former Timesman will refuse to pay [2] his income taxes in that same year:
I will not pay my income tax if we go to war with Iran. I realize this is a desperate and perhaps futile gesture. But an attack on Iran--which appears increasingly likely before the coming presidential election--will unleash a regional conflict of catastrophic proportions. This war, and especially Iranian retaliatory strikes on American targets, will be used to silence domestic dissent and abolish what is left of our civil liberties. It will solidify the slow-motion coup d'état that has been under way since the 9/11 attacks. It could mean the death of the Republic.
Let us hope sanity prevails. But sanity is a rare commodity in a White House that has twisted Trotsky's concept of permanent revolution into a policy of permanent war with nefarious aims
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Then NY Jihad Times moonbat you will go to jail. The same way I have to pay taxes to fund every leftist utopian day dream hand out program, you have to pay to fund the US if we go to war.
What an *sshole.
And the media is full of these dishonest Marxists, oops I meant activists.
He’s a wealthy Democrat, which means he probably doesn’t pay taxes anyway. Only the little people are to pay taxes.
Ever notice that liberals are fierce in stealing YOUR money, while never paying their “fair share.”
The Wall Street Journal denounced Hedges for his anti-war stance. The New York Times issued Hedges a formal reprimand after the address for “public remarks that could undermine public trust in the paper’s impartiality.” Hedges left the paper not long after this incident to write books and teach.
Thanks for the new tagline!
“I won’t pay taxes if Hillary Clinton is elected”
Wow! I wonder if this is the first time this moonbat has noticed that tax dollars are often spent on things people disagree with. It’s been 33 years and counting that tax dollars have been funding abortions. Yup, the Feds still fund Planned Parenthood.
Okay, then I won’t pay taxes so long as abortion is still largely legal. And my uncle Kent won’t pay taxes until the VA hospitals are upgraded. And Cousin Sophie won’t pay taxes until public lands are opened to the public again. And my BFF Jennifer won’t pay taxes until Social Security is shored up for her generation. And then won’t we be a wonderfully functioning society?
Much as I would like to have the power to direct the use of my taxes, it is antithetical to a Democratic Republic and it invites chaos. I’m betting this leftist finds no problems with 99.9% of the government’s confiscation. He’s a hypocrite.
... and then he will hold his breath til he turns blue
I won’t read his paper unless he resigns! There!
“Former NYT Bureau Chief: I Won’t Pay Taxes If U.S. Battles Iran”
Enjoy prison.
That's convenient.
Fine. If we go to battle with Iran, he can be Prisoner #1 in the first of the DemoTraitor Camps
To the lib editor....
Why not just renounce your citizenship if this nation’s foreign policy offends you?
If you are such a fan of Iran, move there. Don’t forget to write.
I have nothing to add to your statement — just that you’re spot on.
But the idiot has no moral qualms whatsoever about making me pay taxes to support his pet causes.
Wonderful. In jail is the right place for him.
Yet one more reason to deny felons the right to vote.
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