SIMPLE MATH - a refresher course

Re-Run/Re-Vision from September 2008

If it seems I am repeating myself and posts, I am....

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What more can be said about (?):

• ALL MEN & WOMEN & CHILDREN ARE CREATED EQUAL
• TAXATION WITHOUT EQUALITY IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL
• EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE LAW
• SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE

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One blogger elsewhere thought that my own tax protest was "not a good image for proponents of same-sex marriage". He elaborates,

"There's a difference between what's theoretically justifiable in the abstract, and what's actually effective for achieving your goals. If your goal is simply expressing your own righteousness, you may have found a way to do that. But if same-sex marriage is really such a momentous issue -- and I agree that it is -- then the goal should be to actually get same-sex marriage enacted. The answer isn't negativity; it's positivity".

To all who may agree - You do not understand the motivation AT ALL behind my own little "tax protest" [ irony inserted 1.3.09 ]

(and you're not the first).

Only when YOUR family & children have experienced REAL harm from discrimination, the kind that devastates your financial security, traumatizes your children, and destroys your psychological health and ability to work, only then will you comprehend how you would NOT give a rat's patootie about any perceived "good image" concerning your tax protest. You'd likely react as many of us have and simply refuse to comply IN ANY WAY with the powers that discriminate and harm your family (and these 'powers that be' do it for

No Rational, Civil Reason).

This ain't no fashion show.

This ain't no P.R. move.

" This Ain't No Foolin' Around... "

This IS a way to live by my own morals and self-respect and not sanction this outrageous legal inequity. Does ANYONE care that children and families and communities are harmed by marriage inequality?

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Well, my tax protest is

NOT about holding my breath

Until I get my way.

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It IS about a complete refusal to submit to my own

Government's Cruel, Inhuman Treatment of Myself,

my Husband (a Vietnam Vet), and

ALL other LGBT FAMILIES

AND THEIR CHILDREN

While simultaneously taxing our income.

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SAME rights & freedoms = SAME taxes.

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This is NOT a quibble about property taxes, or being anti-war, or having any issue with a particular government POLICY. It is about the across-the-board immoral discrimination against MY FAMILY - OUR FAMILY & CHILDREN - something which many suggest is the PILLAR OF CIVILIZATION ITSELF.

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"Well, except for the gays; their

Families and children DO NOT COUNT."

- the reality of DOMA -

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America - LOOK YOURSELVES IN THE FACE

YOU ALLOW THIS LEGAL INJUSTICE

YOU ARE SILENT

YOU THINK YOU ARE NOT AFFECTED

(YOU ARE WRONG)

ALL WHILE WE SUFFER

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If you believe in the interdependence of ALL life

(and if you do not you scare me),

then this inhuman and inhumane treatment affects ALL OF US, since every LGBTIQ-XYZ is linked to a heterosexual somewhere on this planet. Family Trees Grow.

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FAMILY. FAMILY. FAMILY.

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I am still waiting for heterosexuals to justify why we should pay the same taxes for less civil rights.

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Click here for: THE LIMITS OF TAX COMPLIANCE

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