1960s Anti Vietnam War WAR TAX RESISTANCE Federal Phone Tax Protest Cause Pin

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THIS LISTING BEGAN ON APRIL 30, 2021  AND
WILL END WITHIN 30 DAYS, OR ON OR BEFORE MAY 30, 2021
, IF ITEM IS NOT SOLD
OFFERED FOR SALE IS THIS
1 1/2 INCH CELLULOID PINBACK BUTON
IN WHAT I BELIEVE TO BE REALLY NICE SHAPE.
HOWEVER, THAT IS JUST MY OPINION.  SEE PHOTOS FOR CONDITION, AND YOU BE THE JUDGE.
GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC AND ORIGINAL AS DESCRIBED
.
Check out my other Political and Social Protest and Cause items, including "
Hang up on war   DON'T PAY PHONE TAX" stickers with similar graphics.
This pin was issued in the mid 1960's to raise awareness about and support for the boycotting of and refusal to pay the Federal Phone Excise Tax, used to help finance the war in Viet Nam.  The pin was issued by the War Tax Resistance, whose name and address appear on the curl of the pin (see image of back where name of group is visible).
The pin has nice graphics with a hand hanging up an "
old school" dial telephone handle
(see photo of phone).
The Pin reads:
Hang up on war
DON'T PAY PHONE TAX
Ed Hedemann
, one the more prominent leaders of the draft - tax resistance movement, was quoted as saying: “They tried to
draft me during the Vietnam War and I refused
, then t
hey wanted to draft my taxes and I refused
, because
I don’t see the difference between doing the killing myself or paying for someone else to kill
.”
War tax resisters
during the
Vietnam War era faced a wide range of consequences
for their non-cooperation including levies on bank accounts and garnishment of wages, letters and visits from IRS agents,
lost jobs, seized cars and houses, and in a few cases, jail time
.
I
n 1966, Lyndon B. Johnson asked Congress to levy an additional tax on telephone bills
to fund the military deployment in Vietnam. Activist Karl Meyer  wrote the “
Hang Up On War
”
pamphlet
to encourage
resistance to this telephone tax
. By the end of the war, it is estimated that
as many as 250,000 to 500,000 people had resisted the telephone tax
.
During the length of the war,
many prominent individuals took up tax resistance
. For example, in 1968, the Writers and Editors War Tax Protest took out ads in three publications, listing writers and editors who pledged to refuse to pay the income tax and/or telephone tax. Signers included
Howard Zinn, Allen Ginsberg
,
Noam Chomsky
, Grace Paley, Frances Fox Piven, Adrienne Rich, Helen and Scott Nearing,
Kurt Vonnegut,
and
Philip and Daniel Berrigan
.
This underground pinback button pin or badge relates to the Hippie (or Hippy) Counterculture Movement of the psychedelic Sixties (1960's) and Seventies (1970's).  That movement included such themes and topics as peace, protest, civil rights, radical, socialist, communist, anarchist, union labor strikes, drugs, marijuana, pot, weed, lsd, acid, sds, iww, anti draft, anti war, anti rotc, welfare rights, poverty, equal rights, integration, gay, women's rights, black panthers, black power, left wing, liberal, etc.  progressive political movement and is guaranteed to be genuine as described.
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