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Old 03-19-2008, 09:31 PM
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I was reading about all the arrests in Washington today where a group of protesters attempted to block entrances to the Internal Revenue Service Building. The reason for this was that the tax dollars are paying for the war, or as one protester states "We wanted to put our bodies between the money and what that money goes to fund -- the war, the occupation, the bombs," It got me thinking, and this idea may backfire but with Tax season coming up I thought a good way to protest the War is to not pay your taxes. Now I know this wouldn't work if only a few hundred or even a few thousand people did this but if over a million people did this...how about a few million. I can't see the government arresting a few million people for tax evasion. It would take a lot of organization from a lot of different groups but theoretically it would show that the people still hold the power.
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That is a great idea, i would love to take place, but i don't think enough peole would. Our country has forgotten how important the masses are and we just obey whatever we are told to do, its really sad.
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Unfortunately, I have to agree with Kuta777, its very unlikely. But in the case that it did happen, they wouldn't be able to pay anyone to come do something about it.
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Where it asks "your occupation" you could write "I don't want my tax dollars going for occupation of Iraq". That's what I did when I sent money to the DCCC.
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