Tax Day, Bloody Tax Day
 Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 by Connie T.
It's Tax Day, and there are at least 6,552 news articles this
morning about tax protests. From Santa Maria, California to San Angelo, Texas, to Columbus, Ohio,
Long Island, New York, and Concord, New Hampshire, there are rallies scheduled (and massively organized
over the web, we might add) all across the country of people protesting the payment of their income taxes.
But this year,
Tax Day Tea Parties have grown, to an estimated 600 cities nationwide.
Some people refuse to pay specific taxes; others refuse
to pay any at all; some pay under protest; yet others evade or avoid. Tax opponents, whether pacifist opponents of violence and/or war, members of a religious
group, or in general opposition to institution imposing the tax, are up against a pretty heft agency. But though most of
them acknowledge that the laws have been formed in support of taxation, many of them cite loopholes somewhere between the Constitution,
the IRS, or the Journals of Congress (though none of these as yet have stood up in Federal Court as far we know), or refer to
income tax law as "The Law That Never Was."
Though we're hardly in a day and age of rampant protests, in comparison to eras
past, the anti-tax movement is still one of the oldest and most active oppositions still alive within the US.
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