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Saturday, April 12, 2008

Are you conflicted? Tax time again

I'm not in agreement with this war, I'm not in agreement with murdering, injuring, maiming, looting, raping, pillaging or anything else you want to call what this gvernment is doing to the people and countries in the middle east.

I'm not in agreement with what the costs of this war is doing to this country, cutting health care, cutting vital educational programs, the loss of jobs, or the rising cost of oil.

So if I pay my federal income taxes, am I supporting the war? Am I saying OK to pre-emptive war/agression? Am I being part of those that turn their heads and pretend not to see hundreds of thousands of people being killed, maimed, displaced, homeless, without the necessities of life?

I am one of those americans that is in the middle income bracket, I don't qualify for the tax breaks of the rich, I don't qualify for the low income programs (although with the rising cost of living I soon could be!) I have paid my way for years, barely making ends meet, but meeting them with very little extra. With the ends getting further and further apart.

So now the federal government wants me to give them more of my hard earned money.

If memory serves, our ancestors came to this country to escape unjust tax. . . . we are to the point now that everything that we do is taxed, over and over again, even after we die!

So I say again, (after a bit of a rant!) am I a hypocrite if I pay this tax to support the war. If I don't pay, am I willing to suffer the consequences inflicted by and the oppression levied by the IRS?

The "free" citizens of this country should not be forced to decide if they want to be part of committing murder by joining in the financing of this war.

Well I have a few more days to make this decision.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for sharing this--
    I've been a war-tax resister since 2003--though primarily by making less than the taxable amount. Peace, Colin

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