Why Pay Federal Taxes ?

  

The White House is Forcing a Showdown Over Power of the Purse.  NYT.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/us/politics/congress-trump-spending.html

 

The White House may win, at least partially. 

However, that would be an illegitimate government, by the constitution.

We have no obligation to pay taxes to illegitimate government.

 

This coming April 19 will mark the 250th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord, which began the American Revolution and our war against monarchical power. 

Anti-royalist militia in Massachusetts refused to disperse when ordered to by British troops. A shot was fired, and the troops kept firing, killing eight of those American resisters. Later that day, the militiamen returned that fire, killing a number of British soldiers. The revolution had begun. 

Please don’t get me wrong. I do not advocate violence. I’m simply reminding you that this nation was founded on resistance to arbitrary authority. We built American democracy in the face of what seemed to be impossible odds. 

And we will never, ever give up that fight. 

My friend Harold Meyerson suggests that on April 19 we stage massive peaceful protests in every city and town — crowds of Americans celebrating the anti-monarchical uprising of 1775 and pledging their allegiance to that heritage by denouncing Trump’s increasingly autocratic rule: Thereby flooding Trump and Musk’s zone still further. 

Sounds like a good idea to me. You? Robert Reich.

And, we can begin to not pay our taxes. In honor of the American Revolution.

Duane Campbell

Sacramento

 

History of Part of the Recent Left

Revolution in the Air Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao, and Che by Max Elbaum New Edition with a Foreword by Alicia Garza, co-founder of Black Lives Matter

May 20,  4 PM. Time Tested Books. Co sponsored by DSA and the Marxists School

The first in-depth study of the US New Left's long march after 1968 Revolution in the Air is the definitive study of how radicals from the sixties movements embraced twentieth-century Marxism, and what movements of dissent today can learn from the legacies of Lenin, Mao and Che. This new paperback edition, released fifty years after the seminal Protests of 1968, features a foreword by Alicia Garza, co-founder of Black Lives Matter. It is essential reading for those concerned with the radical history of the struggle for racial equality in the US- and how we can learn from that history to achieve a just future.  “If you still believe sixties radicalism was nothing more than youthful middle-class confusion or parochial identity politics, then open these pages and dig.” – Robin D.G. Kelley “The breadth of Elbaum’s knowledge … marks this book as an absolutely first-rate work of political scholarship.” – Village Voice “It should be required reading for those interested in the modern history of social movements and for radicals of my generation who are trying to find out what went wrong.” – Los Angeles Times “Truly a superb work of scholarship that raises all the right questions.” – Radical History

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