Briarpatch Magazine » taxes http://briarpatchmagazine.com Fiercely independent (and often irreverent) news & views. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:33:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Not in my name, not on my dime: Conscientious objection to military taxation http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/05/05/not-in-my-name/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/05/05/not-in-my-name/#comments Mon, 05 May 2008 16:20:59 +0000 dave http://briarpatchmagazine.com/?p=646 By Jan Slakov Briarpatch Magazine May 2008

"Let them demonstrate, just as long as they continue to pay their taxes."

-Alexander Haig

If you feel strongly that it is wrong to pay for war and militarism, then you are a conscientious objector to military taxation. If you act on those beliefs by redirecting the military portion of your taxes towards a peace tax trust fund that invests in non-violent programs, then you are an active conscientious objector to military taxation. In times of conscription, many governments recognize the rights of conscientious objectors-people whose ethics or religious beliefs forbid them from killing people during a war-to refuse military service. During the Second World War, for instance, Canada had about 10,000 conscientious objectors to military service. Instead of participating in killing, they were given alternate duties in agriculture, industry or other work. ]]> http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/05/05/not-in-my-name/feed/