Are You Going to Pay for Bush's Wars?

[babylonsister]

Are You Going to Pay for Bush's Wars?

By Jodie Evans, AlterNet. Posted December 15, 2007.


How much of your tax payment this year would you like to allocate for waterboarding in Iraq or an invasion of Iran?

Around the world, people are puzzled as to why the U.S. public allows the Bush administration to wage illegal wars and usurp our power. Why do we tolerate it and continue to pay for it?

Over the past year, millions of U.S. citizens have voted, lobbied, marched and taken direct action to end the war in Iraq. Courageous soldiers, such as members of Iraq Veterans Against the War, have taken the risk to speak out. Yet Congress continues to appropriate billions of dollars for the war.

How do we up the ante of resistance? It is time for taxpayers who oppose this war to join together in nonviolent civil disobedience and show Congress how to cut off the funds for this war and redirect resources to the pressing needs of people.

Chris Hedges wrote in the Nation, "I will not pay my income tax if we go to war with Iran ... I will put the taxes I owe in an escrow account. I will go to court to challenge the legality of the war."

On this anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, a coalition of anti-war activists is calling on individuals to sign a pledge to resist payment of a portion of their taxes. Our pledge states, "When I am joined by 100,000 other U.S. taxpayers, I will join in an act of mass civil disobedience and refuse to the portion of my taxes that pays the U.S. military occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan." We are aiming for April 15.

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[stray cat]

1. We already have - he has already charged over 10,000 per person

to each of our credit cards.

[terisan]

4. Bush managed to steal the identity of every American and then bankrupt us.

we are now known as the Ugly Americans all over the world, our currency is considered radioactive, and we have debts we never made but have to pay off.

[L. Coyote]

2. Know any realtors in the Venezueala Jungle?

[reggie the dog]

3. I don't pay a damn thing

I don't live in the USA anymore and I don't pay income tax there either. If the American government ever tries to make me pay taxes on my income earned in France I will just renounce my American citizenship. After all I can already legally live in the 26 other countries that make up the European Union.

[Virginia Dare]

5. Our grandchildren will be....n/t