Tax resistance facts for kids
Tax resistance is when people do not pay a tax because they are angry at how the government uses the money.
Some people are tax resisters because they feel bad about helping the government do bad things (like war). Some people are tax resisters to protest. Some people are tax resisters to try to cause a government to fall (like Mohandas Gandhi did in India).
Images for kids
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Gandhi making salt and disobeying the British salt production and tax laws.
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Egyptian peasants seized for non-payment of taxes during the Pyramid Age.
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Boston Tea Party, 16 December 1773.
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Henry David Thoreau, author of Civil Disobedience.
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The White House Peace Vigil, started by Thomas in 1981 and supported by tax resister Ellen Thomas.
See also
In Spanish: Resistencia fiscal para niños
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