Since I no longer pay taxes (since I'm unemployed - and no I'm not collecting unemployment), my tax dollars are no longer going to a government intent on killing people who look (or think) a little different than us.
That is the one thing I take comfort in since losing my job of 27 years.
I'm no longer drone bombing wedding parties in Pakistan.
I'm no longer killing the Afghani people.
I quit pointing guns at Iran.
I no longer give out $55 billion in foreign aid which goes to rogue governments who torture, imprison and murder their people.
I no longer sell or give military weapons to foreign nations who in turn suppress their people for U.S. weapons manufacture's financial gain.
I have quit sanctioning Iran and causing untold harm to innocent Iranians who never did a thing to me.
I no longer send Israel 3.2 billion dollars to kill Palestinians.
The killing no longer has my name on it.
I'm sorry I killed so many people with the money I sent this government all the decades I did.
I apologize to the countries of Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lybia etc.
I may end up killing again when I get another job.
But for now I can sleep soundly knowing I quit killing people through the actions of the immoral representatives in my immoral government.
For now.
Have been off the tax plan for four months now and I would really prefer not to get back on it for all the reasons mentioned in this article, and in addition because all of these various military projects cost a lot of tax dollars which would be far better spent in resolving some of the problems here at home.