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This article appeared in the January 7, 2008 edition of The Nation.

December 19, 2007

WHAT IF THEY GAVE A WAR & NOBODY PAID?

Green Valley Lake, Calif.

One of the most patriotically American things any citizen can do is refuse to pay taxes. Don't we remember? They threw the tea overboard, refused to pay taxes, and with that moment of citizen energy we started coming together as a nation. Thanks, Chris Hedges! Count me in! ["Hands Off Iran," Dec. 10] Hedges leads us, saying he'll do the tea-party thing if Bush attacks Iran: he will not pay his income tax! I'm with him--it's wake-up time!

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