FOR TAX DAY, Ruth Paine will be standing out
front of Santa Rosa's main Post Office to share with anyone interested why she
withholds a good chunk of what the IRS says she owes.
Paine, you may recall, was quite a bit in the
news last November because 50 years earlier she was a close friend to Marina Oswald. Soon after the
assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Paine was horrified to realize that
houseguest Lee Harvey Oswald had
hidden his rifle in her garage.
Paine also is a Quaker and member of the
National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee. For years, she has
channeled Henry David Thoreau and protested America's war and war-preparation
spending by subtracting the military's portion of her federal income tax.
“It's not something I recommend to others,” she
said, “but it helps me answer the call of my conscience.”
She and some other residents of the Friends
House retirement community will be outside the Post Office from 11 a.m. to noon
to talk taxes and war.
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