https://nwtrcc.org/2018/07/18/raising-taxes-to-stop-war/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=raising-taxes-to-stop-war Fri, 27 Jul 2018 09:04:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://nwtrcc.org/2018/07/18/raising-taxes-to-stop-war/#comment-1769 Fri, 27 Jul 2018 09:04:36 +0000 https://nwtrcc.org/?p=8792#comment-1769 Decades ago, the pro-life movement in the United States convinced the federal government that their tax dollars should not be used to fund abortion, something that was morally unacceptable for them. So, the Medicaid funding of abortion stopped.
Why wouldn’t that be a legitimate argument for those of us opposed to war? The precedent is there.
I belong to Veterans For Peace, an organization founded by veterans of the first Gulf War. VFP believes that use of military force should be confined to direct self-defense. These wars for oil and other resources, or for political gain on the international stage, are not legitimate uses of force.
If people could get the government to stop funding abortions with federal tax dollars, surely we can achieve that same end when it comes to war!

]]> https://nwtrcc.org/2018/07/18/raising-taxes-to-stop-war/#comment-1756 Wed, 18 Jul 2018 16:51:45 +0000 https://nwtrcc.org/?p=8792#comment-1756 This is the kind of “new“ idea that the WTR movement desperately needs. We have been saying the same thing over and over for a very long time and obviously attracting insufficient attention and new recruits to make an impact. We might succeed in making ourselves individually feel pure and clean, but we have very little impact in the broader world.

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