Call Someone Who Cares!

.......[c]2005 by Richard L Zorek......12.14.05.....
Want to protest the war? Don't pay all your phone bill! SBC has got to love that piece of information. Actually, the portion to not pay is a small percentage, usually about 3 percent, and it is the federal phone tax. Proceeds from the tax help fund US military ventures. One tax resistance organization that, ironically, calls themselves the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee says they don't know for sure how many are actually withholding, but based on communications they have received....they think about 10,000 nationwide. Did they receive those communications by phone?? The government listens when money is involved. At least they listen if it is their money involved. (If it's yours, they could care less if you were using two tin cans on a string.) The phone companies are writing off the nonpayments to the IRS, and are telling the IRS they will have to collect since it is their tax. But, they are telling their customers that they will have to report them. An IRS spokesman said the IRS is determined to identify all those who evade taxes "based on their opposition to government policies or programs." He said that people could be liable for all past payments, plus interest. I think the IRS isn't getting the message, because clearly if there was interest, the people would be paying.