Craig T. Nelson Calls for a Tax Revolt on Jay Leno
Tax payers are paying for all of this government spending without even being asked if they want to. So what's a tax payer to do, asked Mr. Nelson of TV's Coach and Parenthood. Revolt, he says. Vote with your feet and walk away from paying taxes, from paying for things you don't believe in.
What? A tax revolt you say? "Nobody is taking responsibility anymore..." for what Mr. Nelson calls "taxation without representation", excessive government spending and unbalanced budgets. Apparently Craig T. Nelson is thinking about not paying taxes until these issues are resolved.
On Glenn Beck in May, 2009 Mr. Nelson said, "As an investor, as someone who gets taxed an awful lot, I just say I'm not going to pay until you guys (the government) can show me that you're fiscally responsible."
Mr. Nelson says he is willing to go to jail for his beliefs. But he says a tax revolt would not work until there are a million people willing to not pay their taxes. We would all go to jail, he says. But with a million people going to jail, what could the government do? "There isn't room enough in our jails for that many people. They would have to let us go."
Certainly many Americans are unhappy with government spending these days. But is a tax revolt the answer? Is it the right thing to do? That is something each person has to decide for him or herself.
For more information, contact the Online Tax Revolt at http://www.onlinetaxrevolt.com. The Online Tax Revolt is scheduling a virtual march on Washington in April of this year.
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9 Comments
Post a CommentMr. Nelson is not the first one to think this way. There are a lot of disgruntled, unrepresented Americans who have had enough.
Personally, I think they should get someone who has lived on a fixed income for years to balance the national budget, someone like me. I've been living on a strict budget for years and have been cutting waste from my house for just as long. People like us have to be fiscally responible or die of starvation.
Hmm. I'm not quite ready to revolt.
I think a tax revolt may be the next step if the november elections dont pan out and some of these stupid bills are not repealed. After all they can't arrest every one and with out taxes the gov will not stay affloat.
The banks in the UK were helped out last year at the tax payers expense, and still the bosses of these banks are raking it in with bonuses in the millions. How can they be worth a bonus when the banks nearly folded?
I missed this..thanks for writing about it!
Ha Ha Ha! I like Nancy's comment! Seriously, I am just as mad as Mr. Nelson, but I think it will take more than a tax revolt!
I'd be willing to spend some time in a cell with him.
I don't know if a revolt is the answer. But I would love to see a complete overhaul of the government. Even my daughter-in-law could clean up the fiscal mess made by our government. She's a whiz with money and budgeting.