Tax Day & Protesting in New York City

I had to go to the mid town Post Office on tax day. J. and I filed online so I wasn't there to mail our taxes, but to pick up some priority shipping boxes for mailing some stuff we sold on Ebay. There were huge lines of people waiting to get their tax returns stamped "April 15" but what caught my eye was when I was leaving were the protesters on 8th Avenue. There were protest performers against the war; Grannies Against the War; people protesting taxes as actually "war taxes" and people in general protesting the federal income tax. The banners say "Whose Money?" "How much longer?" "In Whose Name?" It was definitely fascinating to compare the two scenes. Outside people were engaging in their first amendment right to assemblage, while inside people were willingly following the sixteenth amendment by paying their federal income taxes. It was like watching the Constitution in action.