Reply #16: Some Quakers

[quaker bill]

refuse income or seek to minimize income to the point where they owe no or minimal taxes. I do not. I have a daughter in college.

Some of my income undoubtedly goes to support wars and the preparations for war. I work in a position where any significant willful infraction of the law would promptly leave me unemployed and possibly without pension, war tax resistance is not an option. On the other hand, I get to enforce environmental law for a living, collect substantial penalties from violators, and have them spent buying conservation lands, so from my perspective, it is almost a wash.

Living in good accord with Quaker principles is difficult in these times.