There must be fifteen ways to resist your taxes

[Moorlock]

There must be fifteen ways to stop paying for the war...

1) Join the "Don't Buy Bush's War" campaign

    Take the pledge to refuse to pay a portion of your income tax when 100,000 others pledge likewise.
    Link -> http://www.dontbuybushswar.org/

2) Join the 2008 War Tax Boycott

    Beat the rush and sign up now to start resisting your income tax right away.
    Link -> http://wartaxboycott.org/

3) Get under the tax line

    More than a third of Americans live under the income tax line today, and with a little knowledge of tax law (and some frugal living strategies) you could be one of them.
    Link -> http://sniggle.net/Experiment/index.php?entry=howto

4) Dig the underground economy

    Millions of Americans bring in significant earnings from the underground economy, which represents about 10% of the gross domestic product.  The IRS believes that the government loses some $200 billion each year because of its inability to enforce a tax on these transactions.

5) Stop smoking

    There's a federal excise tax of 39 cents on every pack of cigarettes sold in the United States.  Drop your smoking habit, and maybe you'll help Congress cut down on their war spending as well.

6) Homebrew your own beer & wine

    It's legal (and fun!) to brew your own beer and wine.  And when you do, you avoid paying the federal excise tax on alcoholic beverages.

7) Do-it-Yourself

    When you do it yourself -- whether it's repairs around the house or cooking your own meals or growing your own vegetables -- you replace taxed commercial transactions with untaxed personal development.

Choose a credit union over a bank

    Banks are taxed on the profits they make with your money.  Credit unions aren't.  Enough said.

9) Try barter

    Good old trade -- you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.  The I.R.S. considers barter to be a taxable transaction, but they have to catch you first!

10) Take up freecycling instead when you have the urge to splurge

    Freecyclers use the internet to publish lists of the goods they would like either to give away or to find.  You can find anything from building materials to furniture to textbooks to computer parts to baby products to bicycles to guitars and more -- all completely free of charge.  The less money you earn and the less money you spend, the less chance the government has to tax you.

11) Leave the car in the garage

    Every gallon of gas you put in the tank is another 18.4 cents you're sending to Congress (even more if you drive a diesel).  Besides, we all know that the government wouldn't be so eager to invade Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran, if they weren't sitting atop all that car juice.

12) Stop paying your phone tax

    Each month, most of us unknowingly contribute to the policies we resolutely oppose -- because every local telephone bill includes a 3% federal excise tax.  It's easy to stop paying this tax.
    Link -> http://www.hanguponwar.org/

13) Quit your job and start working for yourself

    You can take more control over your income, your tax withholding, and your tax deductions by going into business for yourself.  C'mon.  You know you want to.

14) Leave the country and become a taxpatriate

    The I.R.S. will still try to tax you and your income anywhere in the world, but if you're in another country they'll have to try a lot harder.
    Link -> http://www.escapeartist.com/passports/passport_facts5.html

15) Volunteer to help people get tax refunds

    Every year, thousands of low-income Americans who are due tax refunds fail to get them because they are baffled by the complexity of tax filing.  The IRS will train you, free-of-charge, to volunteer to help low-income families file for the tax refunds that are coming to them.
    Link -> http://www.irs.gov/individuals/article/0,,id=125098,00.html

[David]

Moorlock Quote<4) Dig the underground economy

    Millions of Americans bring in significant earnings from the underground economy, which represents about 10% of the gross domestic product.  The IRS believes that the government loses some $200 billion each year because of its inability to enforce a tax on these transactions.>

By far my favorite. 

[Moorlock]

http://dontbuybushswar.org/

Code Pink notes, of its audacious campaign to get 100,000 Americans to pledge to resist taxes, that "if we succeed, it will be the single largest war tax resistance in U.S. history."

It has been heartwarming to read the comments left by some of those who have signed the pledge so far:

    *  "After my son's second deployment when he related to me the horrors of the occupation in Iraq, I vowed I would do whatever it took to end it. As we urge our lawmakers to stop funding the war, we have to be willing to do the same. It is time we stop funding with our tax dollars."
      — Tina Richards, founder, Grassroots America

    *  "The world and history will judge us by how vigorously we resist the illegal and immoral war tactics of the Bush Administration. My husband, friends and I have decided we can't pay for war anymore."
      — Jodie Evans, Cofounder, Code Pink

    *  "I won't pay my taxes if you won't pay yours."
      — Nina Rothschild Utne, Utne Reader

    *  "We should stop the war, whatever it takes. If withholding our income taxes is a way to do it, I am all for that."
      — Lee Newman, Retired Captain. U.S. Air Corp, World War II

    *  "We must stop supporting policies that use our tax dollars to bring violence around the world. Not one cent more."
      — Maricela Guzman, Iraq War Veteran  U.S. Navy, 1998-2002

    *  "I am one of the majority of Americans who want the war to end and will be happy to pay my taxes when democracy and the rule of law and the Constitution is restored to our once great nation."
      — Steve Savitch, Tuscon, Arizona

    *  "I increased my deductions to 10 this year. I am so glad for this movement to show me what to do next and for the safety in numbers. I will no longer help kill people."
      —Sandee Scott, Pacific Grove, California

    *  "We must renew the American Revolutionary Spirit. We must have a Velvet Revolution to save America."
      — Theadora de Soyza,
           New Rochelle, New York

    *  "If our leaders won't stop this travesty, then We, the People must"
      — anonymous, Oregon, Wisconsin

    *  "Stop feeding the bush war machine... if he thinks the war is so damn important why aren't his daughters on the front lines?"
      — Gina Arcuri, Barneveld, New York

    *  "Time to act for justice and do the right thing. I refuse to pay a war tax!"
      — Herb Gonzales, Jr., San Antonio, Texas

    *  "We must have the courage to take a stand. If enough of us will take this stand, I believe this government will listen."
      — Leo Anderson, Austin, Texas

    *  "I will not pay my taxes to support the war in Iraq."
      — Renata Ahmed, Brooklyn, New York

    *  "As a matter of conscience I will not voluntarily pay my hard earned money to a government whose daily order of business is waging war."
      — Michael Zargarov, Houston, Texas

    *  "When government is out-of-control, citizens must exert control."
      — Den Mark Wichar, Vancouver, Washington

    *  "I refused to pay for an illegal war. It is unconscionable and disgusting that U.S. Congress continues to fund President Bush's war-crimes."
      — anonymous, Ewa Beach, Hawaii

    *  "I am so impressed and proud of your actions. Blessed be."
      — Vicki Noble, Freedom, California

    *  "I may not have much to withhold, but it's all worth it! It's time to stop this crap..."
      — Daniel Bryan, Granc Blanc, Michigan

    *  "Hell nay, I won't pay!"
      — Avi Peterson, San Francisco, California

    *  "United we stand; divided we fall."
      — Kristine Abney, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia

    *  "Taxation without representation. Let's fight this together and start restoring democracy."
      — Shawn DeFrance, Dallas, Texas

    *  "Throw the tea into the harbor. 70% of the American people oppose this war. That constitutes taxation without representation. It is time to throw the tea into the harbor. Coincidentally, that is exactly what I have been saying.  Let's have a tea party."
      — Bobi Meola, Berkeley, California

    *  "We are retired and don't pay any tax. I fully support your courageous efforts to end this bloody occupation."
      — Chris Caldwell, Anaheim, California

    *  "Yes and though dangerous, I pledge to join in not paying the 7% taxes!"
      — Nat Vance, Muskogee, Oklahoma

    *  "I will not pay my taxes if we bomb Iraq. I will not pay my taxes if we bomb Afghanistan. I will not pay my taxes if we bomb Nicaragua. I will not pay my taxes if we bomb Vietnam. I will not pay my taxes if we bomb Laos. I will not pay my taxes if we bomb Cambodia. Therefore, I don't pay my taxes."
      — Dani Visalli, Winthrop, Washington

    *  "Spend my tax dollars on the good of the nation, not war."
      — Jennifer Chacon, Portland, Oregon

    *  "Together we can bleed the war machine dry by using this non-violent civil disobedience.."
      — anonymous, Modesto, California

    *  "Already had planned to put all of my taxes for this past year in escrow. Refusing to pay 7% is a good start, but is it really impacting enough? As Michael Venturi suggests, they will only borrow from the resources for our poor to kill their poor. The war will continue, and the 7% will be stolen from the 'lock-box.'"
      — Alan Scouten, Charlottesville, Virginia

    *  "Thank you for organizing this.... It is time to act. CodePink consistently does excellent work."
      — anonymous, Olympia, Washington

    *  "'A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.' — Martin Luther King Jr."
      — Thomas Fatone, Brooklyn, New York

    *  "Bravo. I have been advocating for just this to happen for several years."
      — Duncan Dow, South San Francisco, California

    *  "Cherish the people, defund the military machine."
      — Doug Mackenzie, Los Gatos, California

    *  "This is a great idea. Next a national strike!"
      — Claire Chang, Gill, Massachusetts

    *  "I already signed onto NWTRCC's 2008 War Tax Boycott, refused to file for FY2006 and have quit my fulltime job to live below the taxable threshold. If Congress won't defund the war, the last bulwark of democracy, The People, must."
      — NTodd Pritsky, Cambridge, Vermont

    *  "This is a bandwagon that most Republicans should hop onto since they abhor paying taxes. Alert everyone you know about this cause there is larger safety in larger numbers."
      — Laura Martin, Clarkson, Georgia

    *  "Let's protest with our dollars this time."
      — Maria Kanaan, Chicago, Illinois

    *  "Thank you all! If Congress wimps out by giving Bush more $$, than we must not provide it. Enough! I refuse to pay for murder."
      — Friend Burton, St. Louis, Missouri

    *  "Time to defund the war."
      — Larry Harper, Sebastopol, California

    *  "I consider myself in good company — like all the 'traitors' who fought off British control and taxation without representation, who wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution."
      — Friend Johnson, Cedar Falls, Iowa

    *  "Let's put our money where our mouths are — since Congress doesn't have the courage to stop funding war — the people will."
      — Susan Eleuterio, Highland, Indiana

    *  "Things have to change with this disasterous war and administration, and women will be the ones to do it."
      —
           Joni Goodale, Orlando, Florida

    *  "In a governmental system based on money and corporate profits, the most effective form of protest comes from withholding payment of taxes."
      — Daniel Woodham, Greensboro, North Carolina

    *  "Thank You! It is about time... I am so ready to join those who are ready to live their convictions."
      — Tighe Barry, Santa Monica, California

    *  "With 50% of the federal budget being used for military purposes, I cannot in good conscience pay for war while praying for peace."
      — Lincoln Rice, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    *  "I will refuse to pay taxes for war even if fewer than 100,000 people pledge because I cannot in conscience pay for these wars in Iraq and Afghanistan."
      — Peter Smith, South Bend, Indiana

    *  "It's about time citizens used their green to bring peace."
      — Heli Taylor, Los Angeles, California

    *  "Not one more dollar!"
      — Deidra Lynch, Orlando, Florida

And this is just from those who have signed up by the beginning of the opening weekend of the campaign!

[Russell Kanning]

it is a good feeling when you know you are doing something to stop the killing

[Bald Eagle]

Indeed.
Though there's a good way to help make sure more people die.

https://www.nhteaparty.org/index.php/topic,585.msg5521.html#msg5521

[erisian]

Paying federal taxes is a crime. You don't want to commit a federal crime, do you?