We resist paying taxes for war used to kill our country’s enemies, because as Christians, Jesus commands us to love our enemies.
We resist paying taxes for war because war is a lethal, murderous sacrilege, a wanton killing of God’s gift of human life which threatens all life on earth, as nuclear war looms.
We resist paying taxes for war because if we ourselves refuse to kill, we certainly cannot pay someone to kill for us.
We resist paying taxes for war because approximately one half of our tax dollars are used to support past, present and future wars, the bombing of Iran costing 2 billion dollars a day.
We resist paying taxes for war because they are used to kill non-combatant civilians, including children, the epitome of innocent victims.
We resist paying taxes for war, the most preposterous of all evils, killing pregnant women and unborn children and sacrificing young enlistees to a war machine.
We resist paying taxes for war because the US military is one of the biggest, high-carbon polluters of the planet’s soil, air and water.
We resist paying taxes for war because war fuels climate change, causing deadly, erratic weather and global warming.
We resist paying taxes for war because they result in the killing of thousands of civilians in Iran, Lebanon, Gaza, Ukraine, and other US war zones, severing limbs, disfiguring bodies, creating lifetime trauma and cycles of revenge.
We resist paying taxes for war, a difficult journey, but one we take because the US government gives its citizens no choice but to pay for war and not for peace.
For more information on war tax resistance: NWTRCC.org; www.warresisters.org; www.nwtrcc.org; [email protected]