[Sosfbay-discuss] Where Do Your Taxes Go

[Fred Duperrault]

Whoever replied to the MVVP annual "Tax Day" demonstration is correct 
that "War crimes should take precedence to budgetary issues,"  However, 
  the Mountain View Voices for Peace (MVVP), with its limited number of 
activists, uses most every strategy possible to try to end the 
slaughtering that has been going on in Iraq for more that three years.

Educating. or reminding, taxpayers that the largest chunk of their fed- 
eral taxes are used to support the five year $500,000,000,000 Iraq 
Debacle is just another effective way to stimulate outrage over the 
onslaught. It is a way to reach people on the fence or who support the 
war. Some people may not be as concerned about the casualties of the 
victims of America's violent jingoism as does the criticizer of MVVP,
but they are the ones who are supporting our government to continue the 
occupation.

Another point: The people who participated in the "Tax Day" 
demonstration have each spent hundreds, possibly thousands, of hours of 
their free time participating in variety of actions trying to stop the 
stupid exercise in Iraq.

They know "There's a world out there..."

Fred D.



OK, this is not going to make any fans, but...

with close to 800,000 civilian deaths in Iraq (more than estimated 
deaths in Dafur), I think this approach is very selfish.  War crimes 
should take
precedence to budgetary issues.  There's a world out there folks.


> [Original Message]
> From: Michael Fischetti <drpesto at hotmail.com>
> To: <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>
> Date: 4/16/2007 5:17:18 PM
> Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Where Do Your Taxes Go
>
> mountain view voices for peace will be having it annual (ugh) tax day 
> protest tuesday 4/17 at the post office in mountain view at hope and dana 
> street from 10 am - midnight --
>
> it is a great way to engage the citizenry - lots of handouts  - everyone
is
> invited to show up a do a shift  --- it has been fun and educational and
we
> reach a lot of people  - another way to be anti war
>
>
> mike f
>
>
> >*
> >Folks,
> >
> >This is FYI on the news release I've sent to three newspapers and four
TV
> >stations.
> >
> >Fred
> >
> >Here is a TAX DAY news tip to: KPIX-TV
> >.
> >From:  Fred Duperrault, 650-691-1215 and fredd at freeshell.org  of
> >Mountain View Voices for Peace (MVVP)
> >
> >
> >News Item:  WHERE DO YOUR TAXES GO?
> >
> >On Tuesday, April 17,  graphic examples of how your federal taxes are
> >spent will  be displayed in front of the Mountain View U.S. Post Office
> >between  10:30 am and 6:00 pm. ( The Mountain View P.O. is located on
> >the corner of Villa and Hope Streets, one block south of the CalTrain -
> >VTA transportation hub.)
> >
> >The "WHERE DO YOUR TAXES GO?"  demonstration is an annual action of the
> >Mountain View Voices for Peace group (MVVP).  Much information from the
> >National Priorities Project and other tax research entities is made
> >available to the P.O. patrons on Tax Day.
> >
> >One of the displays illustrates the shocking size of the five year cost
> >of the IRAQ WAR with a pile of PINTO BEANS one millionth the size of
> >$500 billion, the cost of the war.
> >
> >Each visitors will receive a souvenir PINTO BEAN representing $1,000,000.
> >A pile of 500,000 PINTO BEANS will help apprehend how much
> >$500,000,000,000 really is.
> >
> >Contact person:  Fred Duperrault, (650) 691-1215 or  fredd at freeshell.org
> >*
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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