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the leaflet reacted favorably to
most of the proposals.
"I think people are fed up with
the build-up of the military expen
ditures at the expense of human
needs," he said.
Ealy said other people told
group members, "I'm with you all
the way," "I sent your flyer with
my return," and "It's good what
you're doing, people really need to
know what's going on." Only one
man said he believed more de
fense spending was needed, Ealy
said.
The concept of withholding
taxes to protest the military is as
old as history, Levine said, and
draws its roots in this country
from the peace churches of the
Mennonites and Quakers during
the 18th century.
"Traditionally, we bring it to
people's attention on tax day be
cause so many people going
around without an awareness of
where their tax money is going,"
she said. "It's not an attempt to
get other people to (resist paying
taxes). It is to inform people.
"A lot of Americans are con
cerned about how much being
spent on defense, Republicans as
well as Democrats," Levine
added. "We always get someone
telling us that if we don't like this
country, to move somewhere else,
but for every 10 people there is one
against us and nine others in sup
port."
Support for war tax resistance
declined sharply following the
`Our position is that everyone has to pay their
fair share no more, no less. We'll do
anything to make them pay what they owe ...'
Vietnam War, she said, but is on
the upswing since the military
buildup of the Carter and Reagan
administrations.
Levine said her group estimates
that roughly 40 percent of every
taxpayer's dollar, or $312 billion,
is being devoted to military fund
ing during this fiscal year.
The Manhattan-based War Re
sisters League, the organization
that printed the leaflets distrib
uted in State College, estimates
that an additional 23 percent on
every income tax dollar collected
for fiscal 1987, or $lBO billion, will
go to pay for past U.S. military
involvement. About $26 billion .will
be used to pay veterans' benefits,
and $154 million go to pay off the
portion of the national debt that
was created by military interven
tion, according to the leaflet.
Among college students, many
of whom are not yet paying in
come taxes, refusing to pay the 3
percent excise tax on telephone
use has proven to be the most
popular form of war tax resis
tance, Levine said.
The tax has been associated
with funding the military ever
since it was first used for that
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purpose during World War I. Sub
sequent collection of the tax is
difficult, Levine said, and refusal
to pay is relatively risk-free.
She added that individuals who
refuse to pay taxes usually get a
lot of contact from the IRS.
"Some who refuse are collected
from, but certainly not everybody,
and this is something people don't
go to jail for," Levine said. Refus
ing to pay income tax, is nonethe
less, illegal.
State College resident Linda De-
Camp said that although she
doesn't plan on withholding in
come tax from Uncle Sam, she
supports bringing military spend
ing back into control.
"Something has to be done," she
said. "It will become more out of
control in the future."
Although Snyder has not decided
whether she will donate the money
she iswithholding to social service
organizations, she said, "I feel
that not contributing that portion
of the tax is already contributing
positively.
"This is the first time I've ever
done this, so we'll see how it
goes," she said.
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Styron dwells on domination
By ANGELA BRADLEY
Collegian Staff Writer
Basing much of his work on his
experiences as a serviceman and
traveler, award-winning author Wil
liam Styron uses images of war,
slavery and imprisonment to develop
the theme of humans dominating
each other.
Speaking to a University audience,
Styron read from his most recently
published novel, Sophie's Choice, and
a work in progress called The Way of
the Warrior.
The "semi-autobiographical"
manuscript The Way of the Warrior
and his novel The Long March are
based on his experiences in the serv
ice, both during and after college.
"The Suicide Run," a selection he
read last night from his new work,
centered on a sexual encounter be
tween a married woman and a young
serviceman in North Carolina during
the Korean War.
Styron said he is preoccupied with
justice and institutions such as slav
ery, Auschwitz and marriage any
relation that tends to allow humans to
be dominated.
Styron began writing The Way of
the Warrior in the early 1970 s but
stopped when he was inspired by a
vision for Sophie's Choice.
"One morning I woke up with an
inspiration in which there appeared a
memory of a girl named Sophie who
lived in Brooklyn," he said. Using
information he received from a friend
and his own intuition, Styron said he
mastered the sense of what it was like
to grow up in Poland enough to retell
the girl's story.
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film version of the book. "I knew ters in 1952 for his first novel, Lie
when I read the script, in general, it .Down in Darkness, and the Pulitzer
was a script that I liked. It's a more Prize in 1967 for The Confessions of
than respectable film," he said. Nat Turner.
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