“I don’t pay my taxes. I won’t pay for weapons, for prisons.”
–Kathy Kelly

I don’t pay my taxes.
I don’t want to fund the jobs of the government and bureaucracy that daily bring us one step closer to George Orwell’s nightmare vision.
I don’t support a Congress who voted themselves pay increases that have doubled their salaries in ten years, while the teachers of America get cut and the poor get poorer everyday.—while my best friend can’t even feed her child or the baby that is growing inside of her.
I don’t want to fund a welfare system based on easy-way-outs and on the principle of monetary silence. I want to see these people, I want to give them help where it counts, not send my dollars and forget about it.
I don’t support the democratic veil of America; I didn’t vote for Bush and neither did many of the people I know. In truth, I, as an American citizen, am still not trusted to pass a responsible direct vote. The electoral college does that for me.
I don’t support the veil of democratic principle that shields a capitalist oligarchy, and I will not give them the food on which they thrive: my hard-earned currency which is in a way equal to my life in the logic of Karl Marx.
I refuse to fund the fruitless Drug War and the imprisonment of my fellow pothead over a rapist/murderer.
And I will never, ever condone the use of technology and the construction of machinery for the sole purpose of destroying human, animal, and ecological life, nor do I condone sanctions which place these aspects of life on a slower path to this same end.
In short, I don’t pay taxes.

And I have nothing to give but drawings and sheets of text when the IRS comes knocking on my door.
Material poverty in itself is a freedom. They cannot take the wealth I have because it is not in material abundance.
“Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.”