National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee

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Attention Teachers!

If you teach Thoreau or want to in­spire class­room dis­cus­sions about the change pos­sible through non­violent ac­tion and civil dis­obe­di­ence, con­sider using NWTRCC’s new teach­ing packet. Click here for more in­for­ma­tion about NWTRCC’s new study guide and kit, “Thoreau and His Heirs.”

Fall Events

Join war tax re­sist­ers in DC, Boston, Ten­nes­see, Georgia — and at local actions. More info…

WTRs Report to Prison

Read about the case of Car­los Stew­ard, who headed to Fed­eral Prison Camp on Au­gust 6, 2010. His ad­dress is at the end of the ar­ti­cle.

On July 26, Frank Don­nel­ly re­ported to fed­eral prison to begin serv­ing a year sen­tence for char­ges re­lated to his re­fusal to pay for war.… Read more …

 


“If a thousand [people] were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood.”

—Henry David Thoreau, 1848

Our New Look!

Welcome to the redesigned National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee website. We hope you find this new website easy to navigate and that you'll be able to find all the information you are looking for. We're not an organization with a big national office and lots of staff, so most everything that happens with NWTRCC has great volunteers pushing it along. Thanks to Shane, Dave, Ruth, Rick, Ed, and Peter for all their help with the website! We welcome your ideas and help in any aspect of our work and in letting folks know about the possibility of refusing to pay for war.

Our Money, Our Choice

Today we witness wars in Iraq and Afghanistan so bloody and with purposes so obtuse that the generals and politicians can't agree about what the U.S. is accomplishing there. We can see that these wars are killing tens of thousands of civilians and soldiers and draining the U.S. government's coffers while making the corporate profiteers rich. This has been a familiar story since WWII. It was in 1961 that former President and General Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of the potential abuse of power of a military-industrial complex. U.S. military spending has remained at war spending levels for decades—during active wars and in the rare years of relative peace.

If elected officials insist on funding wasteful weapons and wars, individuals must make their own choices about how they want their tax dollars used. War tax resistance is a powerful way to resist the state and oppose its harmful actions. Conscientiously resisting taxes is a positive action towards refusing to be a part of the destruction. NWTRCC was founded in 1982 to let others know about this form of resistance and to provide resources and support for individuals who are actively doing what they can to stop their money from going to war and military spending.