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4/7/07

SFGate: USA: The tax bucks stop here / Resisters withhold payment in protest of U.S. sending troops to Iraq

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USA: The tax bucks stop here / Resisters withhold payment in protest of U.S. sending troops to Iraq

With the tax-filing deadline just two weeks away, some Bay Area residents are using it as an opportunity to protest the war by withholding their tax dollars to fund it. Known as war tax resisters, they consider it an act of civil disobedience. Some withhold only a symbolic portion of what they owe -- $10.40, for example, to represent the 1040 tax form -- while others, like Hansen, refuse to pay anything at all. Many will redirect their tax dollars to a charity of their choice.

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