{"id":68702,"date":"2026-03-11T08:57:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T13:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/meet-the-americans-withholding-their-federal-income-tax-to-protest-against-trump\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T08:57:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T13:57:41","slug":"meet-the-americans-withholding-their-federal-income-tax-to-protest-against-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/meet-the-americans-withholding-their-federal-income-tax-to-protest-against-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Americans withholding their federal income tax to protest against Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some US taxpayers are refusing to pay the federal government amid ICE surges, the war with Iran and more<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not paying my federal income taxes this year,\u201d Rachel Cohen declared in a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DVbmBC3jwld\/?hl=en\">Instagram video<\/a> that received more than 140,000 likes.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old lawyer in Chicago plans to put the $8,800 she owes the federal government in a high-yield savings account instead. She doesn\u2019t want to fund <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/us-israel-war-on-iran\">wars in Iran<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gaza\">Gaza<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/usimmigration\">immigration<\/a> agents detaining her neighbors, she said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/11\/trump-income-tax-protest\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some US taxpayers are refusing to pay the federal government amid ICE surges, the war with Iran and more \u201cI\u2019m not paying my federal income taxes this year,\u201d Rachel Cohen declared in a recent Instagram video that received more than 140,000 likes. The 31-year-old lawyer in Chicago plans to put the $8,800 she owes the &#8230; <a title=\"Meet the Americans withholding their federal income tax to protest against Trump\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/meet-the-americans-withholding-their-federal-income-tax-to-protest-against-trump\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Meet the Americans withholding their federal income tax to protest against Trump\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}