Public funding of DC abortions - Time for a Tax Protest?

Yesterday a friend and I were discussing the fact that President Obama allowed the public funding of abortions in Washington DC, and what our response should be.

My friend suggested that instead of an all out refusal to pay taxes, and instead of individuals doing this on their own - which the IRS would salivate over - he suggested a massive tax protest held over a certain period of time.

If the signers of the Manhattan Declaration are serious about refusing to pay taxes over the public funding of abortion via health care legislation, let me say there is no longer a need - if there were a reason to begin with - to await passage.

If one one million people withheld their taxes for one month it would send a strong message - one that the IRS certainly could not deal with, and one that would send a shot across the bow of Congress and the White house.

And if the Government isn't moved, then the taxes will continued to be withheld until public funding is rescinded.

Sounds extreme? No, what is extreme is an oppressive government encouraging the killing of our innocent neighbors - and paying for their execution.

I like this idea of a targeted tax protest - I just wonder if the signers of the Manhattan Declaration would adopt it.

And for those who who are confused over the issue of paying taxes to Caesar, consider the closing line of the declaration - "We will fully and ungrudgingly render to Caesar what is Caesar's. But under no circumstances will we render to Caesar what is God's."

General Tax Rebellion (GTR) by the producer-class of the land, was predicted to occur by 2010 or 2011 in the United States, way back in the closing months of 2008 by some intelligent commentators I had heard and read. One wonders that with the massive anti-Obamacare rallies (tea parties) in the USA , followed up with spirited turnout for Congressional Town Halls, flooding the Hill with millions of messages, and nearly every poll saying the American People in the strong majority to don't want this, this action that is happening in the Senate just ramps up things a notch. Something has to give.

I had also picked up Japanese political analysis by experienced US-watchers who are usually on-target that when Obama started in on massive bailouts, it was only a matter of time that national tax protest, tax rebellion, call it what have you, would begin to be seen as a social and political phenomenon in the United States and that the fabric of the country would start to come apart. I thought these predictions were very interesting at the time, particularly coming from abroad.

Boycotts don’t work. Tax boycotts just end up with some people in jail and the government taking what Ceasar’s anyway.

It is not a practical solution, any more than Not One Damn Dime Day.

if we can limit it to just DC then it is ok by me. My opinion of the majority of the people who live there is that they should be aborted, up to and including in the 300th trimester.

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