We Will Never Pay, So Stop Harassing Us

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.readersupportednews.org/opinion2/275-42/8342-we-will-never-pay-so-stop-harassing-us

To: Whom it may concern in the Internal Revenue Service (hereafter known as IRS).

From: Cindy Sheehan, grieving mother of Spc. Casey Austin Sheehan, KIA in Iraq on 04/04/04

From: Christy (Dede) Miller, grieving aunt of Spc. Casey Austin Sheehan, KIA in Iraq on 04/04/04

RE: Recent Notices of Levy and SUMMONS to appear from the IRS to Cindy Sheehan

COPY: The American People

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For almost five decades of our lives, we sisters were taxpaying, law-abiding citizens. Sure, we got the occasional traffic or parking tickets, but we dutifully paid them or went to traffic school. IRS Agent, can you imagine in your Revenuer's heart the agony we felt when we realized that we had funded the murder of our own dear Casey? As our awareness grew, so did our disgust with our complicity in this system as the body count for totally innocent civilians rose. We now feel that for at least 30 years of taxpaying perfidy, we funded the murders and torture of millions! The only way we could live with ourselves was to stop being accessories to our government's war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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We strongly reiterate: we won't help fund the terrorism of this government abroad and the economic terrorism of this government here at home.

More at the link --

[okieinpain]

1. they are going to lose this one. but more power to them. n/t.

[Lionessa]

2. If taxes only paid for wars, then I could agree, but she's also shorting

Medicaid, Student Grants, Food Stamps, other Welfare programs, and so much more. Sorry, refusing to pay taxes is what I'd expect from TeaBaggers. If she thinks she should get away with this, then she would logically have no problem with the 1% and corporations finding some sort of funding they don't like to claim a reason to not pay. Many already don't pay due to loopholes, don't need to give them any more ideas.

[Shagbark Hickory]

3. She could just form a corporation

and make no money or funnel her earnings to offshore tax havens like everyone on wall street

[southernyankeebelle]

4. They seem to forget he enlisted. He wasn't drafted.

[Freddie Stubbs]

5. And that he reenlisted, knowing that he would be sent to Iraq