2010.54.5
(55.88 cm HIGH x 35.56 cm WIDE)
Poster has a blue background with white lettering. In the center of the poster is a large peace symbol with the reciever portion of a telephone horizontally in the middle. From top to bottom the poster reads, "Disconnect the war/ Join with your neighbors/ To sue the government to end the 10% phone war tax/ To save your tax in a trust fund pending the outcome of the suit/ Join/ Northern/ California Telephone war tax protest/ Write/ Phone."
In 1971 a group of 1,000 SF Bay Area residents withheld the 10% telephone tax and sued to have the money go towards the American Friends Service Committee rather than the U.S. government. This action involved the unusual tactic of filing as a group of trustees rather than individual taxpayers. [LMC]
Poster is about tax resistance as an antiwar campaign. The phone tax was originally instituted as a luxury tax on telephone service after the Spanish-American War (1898).
