Protestors Take a Tax Angle on the War
Wednesday March 19, 2008
Police have arrested "more than 30 people" protesting the war in Iraq by blocking the entrance to the headquarters of the Internal Revenue Service in Washington, DC. "The demonstrators said they were focusing on the IRS because it gathers taxes used to fund the war," reports the Associated Press. The Washington Post has footage of the protests.
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If someone actually has the time to protest where their federal taxes are being spent, my guess is that they probably aren’t paying very much (if anything) of the very taxes they are protesting.
Taxes are used to pay for all kinds of government waste & social programs that I don’t believe in or think are necessary. The war is the very least of my concerns. And frankly, my state income tax gets me more riled up than federal.