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Thou Shalt not Pay Taxes April 14, 2007

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There are members of a small religious society in southern New Jersey who will not be doing their income taxes this weekend, nor any weekend. The Restored Israel of Yahweh has spiritual doctrines that do not allow them to pay taxes, particularly to a government at war. Independent Producer Peter Crimmins went to Vineland, N.J., and met people for whom neither death nor taxes is absolute.