A group of activists, who are openly refusing to pay their taxes to the IRS, are instead donating the money to humanitarian programs.
As the United States military and its allies continue to escalate conflicts in Syria and throughout the Middle East, an anti-war group is carrying out nationwide protests on Tax Day to oppose war funding.
The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee (NWTRCC), made a
statement last week calling for an end to war and
proposing a massive movement of tax resistance. The organization has coordinated Tax Day protests since 1983 and their message is more important now than it has ever been.
According to the group's website:
"The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee supports individuals who refuse to pay for war, and promotes war tax resistance in the context of a broad range of nonviolent strategies for social change. Through the redirection of our tax dollars, war tax resisters contribute directly to the struggle for peace and justice for all.
NWTRCC is a coalition of local, regional, and national groups and individuals from across the United States. For everyone interested in or actively refusing to pay taxes for war, NWTRCC offers information, referral, support, resources, publicity, campaign sponsorship, and connection to an international network of conscientious objectors to war taxes."
Comment: That a parent is completely responsible for their children until they are able to give consent seems to reason that they can make these requests of their behalf. It states that these are guidelines and that this is a rare condition, and therefore an exception could be made. However it seems the age we live in bureaucrats are unwilling to adapt their policy to the situation at hand. It's only when a legal case is made or outrage through a publicity campaign that we sometimes see a semblance of empathy.
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