11 March 2009 I’m beginning to think that tax resistance may be the national sport of Argentina. Here’s yet another example, one that seems unrelated to the other two I’ve recounted in recent weeks: Tax revolt in San Luis towards the increase in municipal fees Neighbors in the town of Justo Da...

27 February 2009 Some bits-and-pieces from around the web: Susan Balzer writes about Men­non­ite war tax resist­ers for the Men­non­ite Weekly Review. Some of the resisters mentioned: Tim Godshall, Willard and Mary Swart­ley, Ray Gingerich, Harold A. Penner, John and Ja...

19 February 2009 The brother & sister team of progressive journalists Amy Goodman and David Goodman have collected several stories of people who came face to face with some of the evils of the Dubya Squad years but who made the sadly rare but always heartening decision to not take it lying down....

15 February 2009 In The Unconquerable World Jonathan Schell tells the story of the evolution of the logic of war and political power in a way that might just give it a happy ending after all. The Unconquerable World by Jonathan Schell When pacifists argue for the effectiveness of nonviolent solution...

7 February 2009 As I mentioned a few days back, the IRS is eager to manufacture a public consensus that taxpaying is honorable and good and noble and, above all, normal. The most efficient way to enforce the tax laws is to create a compliance culture in which the citizens police themselves. But if p...

6 February 2009 Tax resistance is an important way to stop supporting the government and its activities, but seeing as how these days so many of the government’s activities are financed not by taxpayer dollars but by borrowed ones, it’s worth saying that it’s equally important not to loan the ...

30 January 2009 Lately I’ve been reading through a collection of Thoreau’s letters. Here’s one that seems especially apropos these days: They make a great ado nowadays about hard times; but I think that the community generally, ministers and all, take a wrong view of the matter, though some of...

22 January 2009 A reporter for the Greenfield Massachusetts Recorder had the good sense to interview civil rights veteran (and long-time tax resister) Juanita Nelson in the wake of yesterday’s inaugural hoopla. Here’s what she had to say. (Excerpts): For all of the celebrating in the nation’s ...

21 January 2009 I didn’t see any of yesterday’s coronation hoopla, but many of my friends were overcome by emotion and emitted yelps of excitement in various on-line fora, so I couldn’t just let the event pass without notice as I would have wished. I am embarrassed for my friends and my countr...

17 January 2009 Today is the 250th anniversary of the birth of the remarkable Paul Cuffee. Cuffee led a small tax resistance effort for the civil rights of black Americans (in the 18th century!). This is what makes him most notable at The Picket Line, but the rest of his life shows him to have been ...