Death and Taxes.
The only two sure things in life unless you happen to be a high ranking Democrat. Currently we have a President who promised to restore the people’s trust and have the highest ethical standards of any administration in history, yet it seems that several of President Obama’s early erstwhile appointments seem not to know who to hire to prepare their taxes nor do they seem to be able to understand the horrific United States tax code. So, if a former employee of the International Monetary Fund and a sitting senator and a top executive with a consulting firm all can’t seem to figure out what is taxable and what isn’t; how is the average Joe supposed to figure it out? Of course, if the Average Joe made a $146,000 error on his 1040, he would be in Federal Prison, not sitting in the US Senate or in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury.
Perhaps the leadership of the Democratic party should listen to the words of Vice-president Biden, it IS patriotic to pay taxes, especially if you are an elected or appointed servant feeding at the public trough. The arrogance toward the “common classes” currently on display in Washington DC is exactly what doomed the ancien regime in France. Perhaps it is time we had a little rebellion again. After all it was the founder of the Democratic Party who famously said:
“God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. … What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”
Perhaps it is time we resisted and held those we elect to be accountable for their actions. After all, it was years of government waste and mis-management that got the United States and several of the individual states into the current political, economic and fiscal messes that they are in, perhaps it is time for some real change. We can start by not re-electing a single incumbent to local, state or federal office. If that doesn’t provide enough change, then perhaps a little rebellion is called for.
