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Remember Where Your Taxes Go...

Learn to recognize lies, while they stand at Their podiums, and proselytize, Like so many Sunday preachers, You can see it in their eyes, and Their shifty facial features, though Their words seem sincere, Their subtle cues, serve as Teachers of their inner intent, so Don't forget your diligence, and Let them kill your dissent, with Empty promises and rhetoric, to Fill your head with lies about, How war is for the betterment, of Nations abroad, the sentiment Is laughable, the premise is a fraud. Cause when it all boils down, and When push comes to shove, Democracy has grass roots, it's Not imposed from above, and At the end of the day, money is The factor prime, it's the secret Justifier for this terroristic crime, First, they bombed Iraqi cities, In a trial of "Shock and Awe" That killed even more civilians, Than what 9/11 saw, and Once the cities were demolished, Halliburton then rebuilt them, and Reaped enormous profits, To the tune of 40 billion, and Among other things, in this "Just" war's spoils, were The underground oceans, Flowing full of crude oil, and We all fund these atrocities, These lies, these hypocrisies, well If you decide this ain't the type, Of thing that you can stand for, Write "exempt" on line 7, of your W-4
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iliveinyourhead
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Oct 1, 2015
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Aside from the W-4 approach, you can also refuse a token amount of any monetary sum on tax form 1040, be it $5 as a symbolic gesture, or a larger amount equivalent to the share of income tax that funds defense/military . Note that if you actually do this, the IRS will try to retaliate. Don't let them intimidate you, people are rarely arrested for low profile tax offenses. There is an establishment called the "War Resisters League" that has been active in the States for over half a century. Their website is an excellent resource for strategies and  guidelines for those whose consciences will no longer allow them to be complicit with this sort of behavior. Please consider this, and spread the message far and wide. If enough people did this on a given year, it would make a powerful statement.

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#politics#revolution#violence#greed#taxes#rebellion#iraq#activism#bush#pacifism
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