Say NO to War Taxes

We live in a world full of nuclear weapons. Several nations, including the United States, Russia, UK, China, and France, hold nuclear weapons enough to destroy the whole world over and again, and thus hold the entire civilization as their hostage. Their ambassadors often sit at the VIP table named UN Security Council. Rather than discussing how to solve security issues, and especially how to eradicate nuclear weapons from Mother Earth, they are instead busy vetoing each other’s resolutions.

As the old wounds of the Cold War have reopened in Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of civilians have died, millions have been displaced, trillions of dollars of infrastructure have been destroyed, and progress on climate agenda has faltered. The blame on the Ukraine war not just falls on Russia who started the civil atrocities, but equally on NATO who failed to neither dissolve nor back out from Eastern Europe in the aftermath of the Soviet collapse. Right now, it is of utmost need to hold both sides to acknowledge their crimes immediately as well as declare a willingness to back out from the war, at the same time, on the same day.

In protest of unnecessary wars caused by political chess games, is time for practice civil disobedience and mass boycotts. More than twenty cents of a dollar of US taxpayer’s income is spent on military, and nearly half of their taxes goes to fund past, present and future wars. Despite a withdrawal from Afghanistan, the United States government has increased, not decreased, the military budget.

To honor the dead and the displaced and the injured in the war in Ukraine, we must pressure the US military to back out by mass boycotting of taxes.

“Legal” or “illegal”: we have both means. The goal is to protest our money taxed to murder people, amass weapons, and terrorize the world. Let’s start from the Tax resistance wiki page, as well as National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee, or nwtrcc.org.

Originally published on Substack at https://penguing.substack.com/p/say-no-to-war-taxes.