Tax Day: While Millions Rush to Meet Deadline, Resisters Continue Longstanding Refusal to Fund War

Today is April 15th, Tax Day, when millions of Americans scramble to file their income taxes on time. It’s also a day when people across the country are planning to protest the use of tax dollars to fund war. In dozens of communities across the country, demonstrations are planned at IRS offices, federal buildings and weapons factories to protest ongoing massive U.S. government expenditures on drones, missiles and bombs. According to a new pie-chart released by The War Resisters League, 47 percent of federal taxes goes towards war in some form or the other. To protest paying for lethal weapons, some Americans are taking a stand by personally refusing to fund the military. These tax resisters are risking jail time by withholding all, or a portion, of their federal income taxes — and instead redirecting the money to humanitarian efforts. We speak with Ed Hedemann of the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee. He has redirected the federal portion of his tax bill to non-profits and humanitarian efforts for 40 years.

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Ed Hedemann, A conscientious war tax resister who has redirected the federal portion of his tax bill to non-profits and humanitarian efforts since the 1970s. He is a member of the War Resisters League, the United States’ oldest secular pacifist organization. In 1982, he helped found the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee to provide information and support to people considering war tax resistance. Hedemann is the author of “War Tax Resistance: A Guide to Withholding Your Support From the Military.”

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