I no longer wish to fund the Iraq War with my tax dollars.

[bluestateguy]

I suppose there are many other government programs that I would rather not fund, but none that cost as much as the war in Iraq costs. Furthermore, we were lied to about the Iraq war and unlike many other government programs, this is one government expenditure that results in lost lives and destruction of property. Nor is this a war that is necessary for the protection of the American people. In fact, it is likely making the American people less safe over the long run.

So I propose that US taxpayers be allowed to check off a box on their tax returns stipulating that none of their tax dollars will be used for war in Iraq.

[Straight Shooter]

1. 25 percent of our federal income tax goes to the military

I don't know how much of that is allocated to the war. I would like to see how much of my own sweat equity is going to a worthless cause that I don't support, that is killing my country's citizens by the hundreds and another country's citizens by the hundreds of thousands, and the entire debacle was based on a lie and supported by an American populace afflicted with moral leprosy which they caught from that moral leper called George W. bush.

Yes, I would like to check a box that says, "Put this money into homeless shelters, into Veterans Administration Hospitals, into intervention programs to prevent child abuse, into education and work training programs."

[bluestateguy]

2. Let the conservatives fund the War

I actually am fine with some of my money going to the military: to military housing, health benefits, education benefits, peacekeeping missions and any JUST war the US must fight.

In exchange, I'll even say that the conservatives can opt out of funding social welfare programs they dislike, as long as they disqualify themselves from even being eligible to beneficiaries of them.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. Good Christian nation... addicted to militarism in the name of

corporate dominance... think Russia, China, N. Korea, the EU don't see it?? They see it alright and they are going to come up with a way to wean us from our addiction.

I can see it now... the 12 step program for Pentagon types, NEOCONS, and military industrial complex parasites. Actually, I feel that this would be a good thing.....

[bhikkhu]

14. More than 25 percent.

I don't have the numbers in front of me...but recall that the pentagon budget is really only a portion of the military budget. The nuclear side of the military is funded through the department of energy, I believe. The space programs carry some weigh, and other aspects are funded through other departments...I think 50 percent of the total budget is closer to the actual number, however obscene that sounds.

[bhikkhu]

16. One more thing...

A substantial amount of our foreign aid is either earmarked for the military purchases of foreign allied countries (buying US products, naturally), or used as leverage to directly lighten the load on our military, ala the "coalition". In either case, they are effectively military expenditures.

[bvar22]

4. Your money is not funding the War on the Iraqi People.

bush* is using YOUR CHILDRENS' money for that.

[mitchum]

11. Sad, but true

good point

[tandot]

5. I no longer wish to pay Bush's salary with my tax dollars...can we fire

him?

As tax payers we simply don't have a choice. We all pay for the mistake of the over 59 Million American morons.

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. Since bush* was never elected twice, why are we paying his salary?

:shrug: I am here by giving * the one finger greeting! Whatever happened to our one finger smilie?

[BeHereNow]

6. Well TOO BAD...

because your representatives work for the
defense/chemical/pharma cartel
and not YOU.
You no longer have say in how your tax dollars
are spent.
sarcasm (sort of) off-
bhn

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. LOL good luck!

Didn't the chimp state that Iraq oil would pay for the war and the Reconstruction and well everything related to the "war on terra" with regard to bringing down saddam? :shrug:

[tandot]

10. Yup. Their oil will pay for everything and we will be greeted with cheers

and flowers.

It is amazing how over 59 million morons still believe everything this incompetent asshole says.

Hey lurking freepers, stop whining about being called stupid. The truth is, we and the rest of the world know that you are ignorant fucks...who else would vote for Bush?

[MRKARNO]

8. Be like Thoreau

and don't pay your taxes which are supporting an unjust cause.

[Nordic]

12. are you kidding me? You can't buy this kind of carnage anywhere else!

Go USA! Go USA! Go USA!

[bhikkhu]

13. Its a Big Basket

If you could check off to not pay for the war, they could simply increase the war-portion of the other receipts, and the net effect would be nil.

Its not just the taxes you pay directly to the government. Its the whole economy that funds the war. If your job production becomes corporate or private profits which are taxed, you fund the war. If your consumer habits drive the economy generating corporate or private profits which are taxed, you fund the war. The largest protion of government expenditures are on the military, and these are paid for by a complex set of taxes distributed about the whole US economy.

So what do you do? For me it has been easy. I lost a good job with benefits in the last downturn, and now work part time for very little, and get food assistance. The economic footprint of my family is small now, perhaps close to being a burden on government revenue rather than a source. I have some small peace of mind knowing that every new killing, every new bomb dropped, is not happening with my willing or unwilling financial support.

[Cleita]

15. Back during Vietnam certain high profile liberal celebrities like

Joan Baez, actually withheld the part of their incomes taxes that would have gone to pay for the war. I think there was something that they did to put the money into escrow. So they filed tax returns but paid only the portion that was not for the war. I never followed up on how this played out. All I know is Joan is not in jail, so I don't know if she got away with it and finally paid her taxes after the war ended, or if she had to pony up the money.