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judy

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8. Well, this is where true civil disobedience lies...

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sat Apr 7, 2012, 12:28 PM

Apr 2012

in the modern Western World.
War Tax Resistance has been going on for a long time, and has contributed to ending the Vietnam War.
Check this out:
http://www.nwtrcc.org/

I, personally am too cowardly to do it...maybe there will be one day where I am "mad as hell, and I can't take it anymore" and will have the nerve to start doing it...
War Tax Resistance on a large scale would change the world!

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Almost Half of U.S. Tax Money Goes to military and Health Care [View all] kpete Apr 2012 OP

Wow, interest is up to 8.1% and that is with record low borrowing costs banned from Kos Apr 2012 #1

When you project these costs further and further out into the future... NYC_SKP Apr 2012 #2

Yep, agree. I'm certainly no economist, but I think it's going to RKP5637 Apr 2012 #3

We pay twice as much for health care as other developed countries with worse results... rfranklin Apr 2012 #5

You're right and the GOP knows it. To balance the budget taxes need to go banned from Kos Apr 2012 #6

A portion of which gets laundered back to congress as "campaign contributions" (bribes.) PSPS Apr 2012 #4

Here's a good graphic from not too long ago: bhikkhu Apr 2012 #7

that is a graph for discretionary spending only banned from Kos Apr 2012 #9

Well, this is where true civil disobedience lies... judy Apr 2012 #8