18—The Daily Collegian Thursday, April 16, 1987 Taxes Continued from Page 1. 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 Prime Rib Night at TONIGHT! AND EVERY THURSDAY IRS_representative Warren Schrum i purpose during World War I. Sub sequent collection of the tax is difficult, Levine said, and refusal to pay is relatively risk-free. 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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. I , k, ~.'...,....., ••••,,,,,:.. 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He, from the heart and from the mind." received the Prix de Rome of the He said he was satisfied with the Americn Academy of Arts and Let 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. Although Styron said he did not These books and other publications have problems writing the novel are displayed in the special collec never "hitting snags" he said tions department of Pattee's Rare writing is far from easy. "I believe Book Room., FINANCE MAJORS Get more out of your education Be a Finance Club Officer Tonight: Informational Meeting 7pm 212 Boucke (elections next week) Call Ray 238-9536 for more . info. Its up to you to make a difference! MESE I t • ' ~':t•,,, . 2 , 1 „.., . 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