Milton Mayer [WWP466+]:

As long as I went on giving [the gov't] its annual allowance, I could no more expect it to mend its ways than I could a reprobate son.

I was paying others to do what I would never do myself or, indeed, countenance in others in any other circumstances. This couldn’t go on.

Taxes are inevitable. So is death. But suicide isn’t inevitable. I intend to die unwillingly and without giving death any help. The inevitability of any evil is not the point; the point is my subornation of it.  Why should I, on receipt of the Government’s demand for money to kill the innocent, hurry as fast as I can to comply?

My neighbor says that my refusal to pay half the tax begs the question, since the Government will use half of what I do pay to kill the innocent and, in the end, with interest and penalties, get more from me than if I had paid the whole tax with a smile. Agreed. But the point is unaffected; the point is the smile. [see also: Nathan Hall]

I haven’t the power to put a stop to the abomination, but only to put a stop to my being willing to perpetrate it myself....

What our Government requires of you and me, in our dotage, is only that we give it the money to buy the gun and hire the man to carry it. What say you?