Do You Feel Guilty That Iraqis Have Been Killed With Your Tax Money?

[G_j]

I am talking about the thousands and thousands of Iraqis killed by US bombs etc.

**note. There are war resisters who refuse to pay. It is a movement that has existed in America for a long time. http://www.nwtrcc.org/

[datadiva]

1. I did not vote for the creeps

that started this stupid war. I feel sorry for our soldiers and the Iragi citizens. I am ashamed of my government. :cry:

[rosesaylavee]

2. Yes!!! and it maddens me that I can't do anything about it.

I would like to think it would be different if this war had been fairly presented and considered by our representatives and by the people in the street and not crammed down our throats with lies and threats. This is an ILLEGAL WAR! I cringe every time I hear someone from outside the US ask 'what were **WE** thinking' when we went into this war. I feel so absolutely powerless - because I am in this situation. I can say until I am blue in the face (pun intended) that several thousand of us protested in large and small towns across this country in the months preceding the war and after the war was initiated... our media didn't cover it but that didn't mean we were standing there on the streets, on the corners, at the water coolers where we worked and blogging on the internet telling people WE didn't agree about starting a war with Iraq. NOT to mention that the MAJORITY of Americans didn't vote(TWICE)for this honyock and his minions in either the 2000 or 2004 appointments.

:rant:

[madokie]

3. You dam right. I didn't see that option so no vote.

[rpannier]

4. I live overseas. The job I have doesn't require me to pay taxes to the US

Government. So...I feel no guilt.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. The two bombs I paid for were for freedom and democracy. nt.

[stray cat]

6. Tax money also goes to disability, public schools etc.

Thats why republicans support tax breaks - they can choose if they want to donate money to any other cause and not spend taxes on things they don't believe in.

[MrSlayer]

7. I don't feel guilty but I am ashamed.

I have no control over where my tax money goes and considering that I didn't vote for the people distributing it I can't be held responsible. But I sure as hell am embarrassed by and ashamed of what they have done.

[G_j]

8. SF Chronicle: Not paying phone tax becomes war protest

http://www.nwtrcc.org/hanguponwar.org/SFChronicle_12-4-05.htm

Not paying phone tax becomes war protest
by David Lazarus

San Francisco Chronicle
Sunday, December 4, 2005

Theodore Roosevelt (center) with his cavalry unit in Cuba during the Spanish-American War, when the phone tax was first passed. Harvard College Library photo via PBS

Thousands of people are protesting the war in Iraq by refusing to pay federal phone taxes -- and in many cases, phone companies are helping them do it.

So-called tax resisters risk the wrath of the Internal Revenue Service. Yet that hasn't stopped them from withholding payment of the monthly federal excise tax on their phone bills, proceeds from which are used in part to fund the United States' military adventures abroad.

Ruth Benn, who runs the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee in New York, said it's impossible to know for sure how many people are participating in the grassroots movement.

But she said communications received by her organization and discussions with other protest coordinators suggest that at least 10,000 people nationwide are withholding federal excise tax payments because of the war.

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