“I’ve been meaning for some time to track down more information about the tax resistance of Rose Wilder Lane. Lane was the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder of Little House on the Prairie fame and an accomplished writer herself. She is also an influence on the American libertarian movement. She is a rare example of an American conscientious tax resister coming from the libertarian/paleoconservative tradition. That tradition tends to breed either people who merely complain about or disparage taxes, people who try to work within the system to reduce taxes (a la Howard Jarvis or Grover Norquist), or people who come up with tortured legal arguments for why the existing tax laws are illegal or inapplicable. Conscientious tax resistance is, in contrast, very rare. Lane began her tax resistance in the middle of World War II. The New York Times covered her protest in April, 1944 …” (07/26/06)