Peter Matthiessen

[Mark Kohut]

like Thomas Pynchon and Kirkpatrick Sale (and over 500 others) signed
the (Vietnam) War Protestors Act in 1968. I have wondered what happened to
most of them vis a vis the IRS. 
 
"During the Indochina War, war tax resistance gained its greatest strength ever in the history of the United States, and on a secular basis rather than as a result of the historic peace churches, who played a very minor role this time. The government did its best to stop this increase in tax resistance, but was hamstrung by telephone tax resisters. There were so many resisters and so little tax owed per person that the IRS lost money every time they made a collection. The cost of bank levies, garnished wages, automobile and property seizures, and even the simplest IRS paperwork was simply too expensive to be worth it."
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