For what it’s worth, though, as a long-time and multiply levied resister, I’d add that the question for me isn’t entirely relevant, though it’s certainly interesting. I regularly tell people that my way of doing war tax resistance is a lousy way of keeping money out of the hands of the of the government – true as far as it goes, as it concerns me as an individual, since I personally would have paid less had I not resisted than I’ve paid as a result of resisting. WTR for me is a mode of witnessing (and also what Randy Kehler has sometimes called a spiritual exercise). Some people call this a “merely” symbolic act; it is indeed symbolic, but symbols are important too, so I’d dissent from “merely.”