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Crossing the Rubicon -- war with Iran
Chris Hedges (War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning)said on "Democracy Now" several months ago, that he intended to stop paying income taxes if the U.S. invades Iran. Now this is, to me, how a patriot acts.
There are only a few people with this kind of courage, and of course, we all have perfectly good reasons not to join the tax resisters: we have parents, kids, dogs, cats, etc. We're too young or we're too old, too rich, too poor. We do important work that might be interrupted. But ultimately, we need to face the fact that if we continue to pay our taxes, we are enabling the U.S. war machine. Pure and simple. What we do about that is between each of us and our own conscience.