"I am writing this preliminary statement of my reasons for not paying taxes ahead of time, as I was recently informed by your office that I would be imprisoned for my constant refusal to pay taxes. Upon my arrest I will give you the correct report of my earnings to date in 1948. My belief in the iniquity of government, which exists primarily to wage war, has been stated this last six years in my statement to your department when I refused to pay any tax, and also in articles in the Catholic Worker."
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Ammon Hennacy
Ammon Hennacy (24 July 1893 – 14 January 1970) was an American Christian anarchist, Christian pacifist, and social activist.
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