Answer:
Tax money is funding a violent, unjust war.
The crime that the state is committing is worse than the crime of withholding taxes.
Acts of civil disobedience such as withholding taxes are preferable to violent protest.
Petra is an ancient city in Jordan<u>,</u> but it has long been abandoned.
This part of the essay represents A, the support. The key phrase is "Another similarity....", which shows us that this paragraph is one of the evidences to support the thesis.
Um what does your passage say?