I was notified recently by the Internal Revenue Service that I have been fined $5,000 for "frivolous filing" of a tax document.
The story, quickly:
In the spring of 2007 and the spring of 2008 I took a book tour around the country. In 2007 I went east and in 2008 I went west.
Each time before I left home I sent a letter and a tax form to the IRS.
The forms each had a black Magic Marker "X" through them.
The letters indicated why I did not wish to cooperate with the United States of America.
It was symbolic. They had already received my money through paycheck withholding tax.
But even though merely symbolic, it's something, some very little thing, in an effort to stand with those who have been stomped on by the government of George W. Bush, those in Iraq, and those in the United States, who have gone without health care, decent schools, roads, lived in poverty so that we might spread the American empire across the globe.
