Reply #5: Okay. Here's an organization that counsels on tax resistance.

[SophieZ]

The IRS doesn't exactly broadcast the fact that a number of people withhold some of their taxes, as an objection to the warmaking that goes on with our money.

But, Free Speech Radio News DID. Yesterday.

Free Speech Radio News
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Resisting the War Tax (4:45) by Martha Baskin
(You can listen here -- about 22 minutes into the broadcast.) http://www.fsrn.org/news/20050412_news.html

It's estimated that as many as 10,000 people are resisting paying their portion of the "war tax" from their annual income. With tax day, April 15, just around the corner, Martha Baskin takes a look at this element of the anti-war movement.

She mentioned this organization in particular. They provide counseling, and a way to redirect tax money to peaceful purposes, as a form of civil disobedience:

The Conscience and Military Tax Campaign Escrow Account http://seanacc.org/escrowaccount.htm

from their website:

NACC's Conscience and Military Tax Campaign (CMTC) Escrow Account has worked since 1979 to assert U.S. taxpayers' rights of conscience. The account helps to support those who refuse to pay for war and preparations for war, and who wish for their taxes to be used only for peaceful, life-affirming purposes.

NACC maintains an office in Seattle; from which it administers the Escrow Account; makes grants to local, national, and international community groups from the interest accruing to the account; counsels War Tax Resisters and prospective War Tax Resisters; conducts War Tax Resistance workshops; responds to WTR inquiries from the media and the general public; and publishes a biannual newsletter and WTR-related literature. NACC supports passage of the Peace Tax Fund Bill through Congress, and is an affiliate of the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee <http://nwtrcc.org/> (NWTRCC), and the War Resisters League <http://warresisters.org/> (WRL).

NACC's long-run goal is the redirection of Federal spending away from the military and towards the meeting of human needs. War Tax Resistance is a powerful form of nonviolent direct action towards this end.