We recently recieved a check in the mail from the U.S. government.\u00a0 Only it wasn’t for the amount that\u00a0an earlier\u00a0postcard had indicated.\u00a0 Well, there was some small print that said it\u00a0might be minus any amount that we owed the government.\u00a0 As readers of\u00a0this blog\u00a0already know, we are pacifists and war tax resisters because we cannot in good conscience pay for training and arming others to kill in our name (search my blog for more on this).\u00a0 So\u00a0our check\u00a0came up a few hundred dollars short of what was first promised. But this was no big surprise (sometimes they get the money, sometimes they don’t), and we follow our conscience in this not with certainty of the results (that is God’s will, not ours), but\u00a0 certain that we can not willingly cooperate with something that we believe supports such an evil.\u00a0Note that we have nothing against taxes per se and would gladly pay\u00a0our full amount if we could be\u00a0assured that\u00a0none of it\u00a0would go for war. You can be certain that we will continue to be war tax resisters.\u00a0 We follow our conscience, not the calculations of the liklihood that government will or won’t get the money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We recently recieved a check in the mail from the U.S. government.\u00a0 Only it wasn’t for the amount that\u00a0an earlier\u00a0postcard had indicated.\u00a0 Well, there was some small print that said it\u00a0might be minus any amount that we owed the government.\u00a0 As readers of\u00a0this blog\u00a0already know, we are pacifists and war tax resisters because we cannot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peace","category-politics","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}