Should I Stop Paying My Taxes On Moral Grounds? An Interview About War Tax Resistance with David Gross, author of “99 Tactics of Successful Tax Resistance Campaigns” RPF0017

Radical Personal Finance

Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP

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🗓️ 10 July 2014

⏱️ 67 minutes

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In today’s show we move over onto the more “radical” side of financial planning. Today’s show is an interview with David Gross, author of “99 Tactics of Successful Tax Resistance Campaigns.” David worked as a computer programmer and lived a fairly normal life until 2003, when he became bothered by the actions of the U.S. Government […]

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0:00.0	Radical Personal Finance Podcast. I'm your host Joshua Sheets for today Thursday, July 10, 2014.
0:30.0	Today's show is going to be fun. Today we're going to talk again about taxes only unlike last week or earlier this week or whenever it was that we were talking about avoiding taxes
0:41.0	today we're going to talk about just simply not paying them.
0:44.0	Should be fun.
0:47.0	Yes, you heard it right. Today we're going to talk not about tax avoidance. We are going to talk about tax evasion. We're going to cross over the line line and today's show is going to be an interview with
1:05.2	a man named David Gross who runs a site and has written a book. He runs a site called
1:10.4	The Pickett Line and this is about the War Tax Protest Movement.
1:16.3	I first ran across this year or two ago, and I just was fascinated by some of the things that
1:20.4	he was writing and some of the information that he had to share and you
1:24.8	know it's going to be kind of a properly radical subject it's going to be a
1:30.3	properly I guess edgy subject.
1:34.6	It's very comfortable a lot of times for us
1:36.4	to talk about choosing not to pay the taxes
1:39.4	through legal means.
1:40.7	But then you get to the point of saying, when do you say enough is enough and I'm going to choose not to pay them because of moral
1:48.1	reasons and that's what this
1:51.5	episode is going to be about.
1:53.6	Before we get started, just to be clear,
1:56.0	I find this subject really interesting,
1:58.2	but since I'm clearly on the record here,
2:00.8	I'm not a wartime protester, although I'm sympathetic to his position, that's not me.
2:06.3	And at this point in time, choose to pay every dollar that I owe, not a penny more, but choose
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