Knights of the Tax Table

Errant protesters are jousting with the IRS

The President has promised income tax cuts, and Congress has indicated its willingness to legislate at least some of them—maybe. But as many as 3,500 taxpayers in the Flint, Mich., area just cannot wait. They have been refusing to shoulder their federal burden by claiming dubious tax exemptions as clergymen, filing their 1040 forms with UNCONSTITUTIONAL! scrawled across the page or in some cases claiming as many as 99 dependents in order to reduce federal withholding from their paychecks to zero.

Dean Hazel, 28, a General Motors...

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