The U.S. government spends $400 billion a year on "defense" and has spent and extra $310 billion on the Iraq War so far! There are 190 countries in the world; the US has bases in 130.

This isn't to protect us, but to make the rich richer at our expense.

The taxes that Americans pay go to murder and terrorize innocent people globally, and then results in terrorist blowback. For example, the blood of the over 600,000 Iraq citizens killed in the Iraq War is on the hands of American tax-payers.

STOP PAYING TAXES!

Give the money to charity, or spend it to protect yourself, or do whatever you want with it because it's your money. But whatever your do, stop giving it to a government that kills, terrorizes, and imprisons innocent people - whether globally as with the needless Iraq war, or domestically as with the war on drugs.

I oppose ALL terrorism. I oppose the use of offensive force, violence, or coercion against any innocent person for any reason.

"Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison... Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight. If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose. If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay [the State], and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible. If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, 'But what shall I do?' my answer is, 'If you really wish to do anything, resign your office.' When the subject has refused allegiance, and the officer has resigned from office, then the revolution is accomplished. But even suppose blood shed when the conscience is wounded? Through this wound a man's real manhood and immortality flow out, and he bleeds to an everlasting death. I see this blood flowing now."