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Attack of the Tax Resistors
Litopia After Dark
English - February 05, 2015 13:52 - 55 minutes - 57.5 MB - ★ - 1 ratingArts Books talk show writing books publsihing debate chat show Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
When US and UK forces invaded Iraq in 2003, millions of people took to the streets to protes – to little effect. The bombs of Shock and Awe kept falling. By some estimates the civilian death toll stands at over 150,000.
Like many people, tonight’s guest David Gross had a crisis of conscience. And yet unlike many people, he’s done something about it. He’s stopped paying taxes. Not by tax avoidance, but by lowering his income below the tax threshold - and by using as many loopholes as he can find within the law. You know, just like all our much-loved multi-national corporations do!
Tonight’s guest tax resistor David Gross
But would his solutions work for you? His recent book - 99 Tactics of Successful Tax Resistance Campaigns - combs through history for examples of tax resistance movements that actually changed government policy (like the Suffragettes. Such tactics don't come without risk: despite Mr. Gross' best efforts, the IRS is after him for thirty grand and if his profile gets much higher he risks incarceration.
Is he an elitist? A traitor? Or - sin of all sins in the USA - does he not support the troops? Tonight, our host and self-confessed “taxpaying mug” producer play good cop/bad cop with one brave individual who refuses to fund the system error they call the war on terror.
Catch Mr. Gross' recent feature in the Atlantic: Can Quitting A Job Help End War?
Or track his nefarious schemes and suggestions on his blog The Picket Line
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