I Hate Taxes, too

I’m sure everyone’s all shocked and shaken by my startling confession — NOT.

After all, who likes paying taxes?

Anybody? Anybody?

[chirp] [chirp] [chirp]

Didn’t think so.

Okay, next question. Who wants to defend the likes of Joe Stack, the whacko who posted his spittle-flecked anti-IRS, anti-government manifesto/suicide note on the Internet, set his house on fire, then crashed his plane into an Austin, Texas office building, killing himself and IRS Manager, Vernon Hunter?

Apparently lots of people who also hate paying taxes.

Of course, most have done so with the caveat that they did not agree with how this anarchist kook expressed his grievances against the IRS, but they’re nonetheless empathizing/sympathizing with the sentiments of a crackpot whose troubles with the IRS were of his own making, not because of some government policy — other than the one that deals with folks who don’t pay their taxes.

Now, I did sorta, kinda understand the nutjob’s daughter, Samantha Bell, saying she regards her father as a hero for his anti-government position, even though she considers his final actions to be “inappropriate” and “wrong,” as grief can do strange things to people sometimes — which is a good reason for grieving people to stay well away from the media.

But this woman, in a classic demonstration of how those proverbial acorns don’t land very far from the trees from which they fell, also said, “if nobody comes out and speaks up on behalf of injustice, then nothing will ever be accomplished,” as if there’s “injustice” in the IRS going after people who don’t pay their taxes.

“I do not agree with his last action with what he did,” she said, “But I do agree about the government.”

Well, what about the government? That it expects all the people to pay their fair share of taxes, whether they like it or not, and that it will go after those who believe that they are above the law and refuse to pay theirs?

Or has it got something to do with how railing against the government is especially fashionable these days?

‘Cause there’s lots and lots of people who’re pissed at the government about something or another that most can’t quite articulate.

Sure, the economy sucks and the Congress can’t seem to get anything done because it’s populated with Republican “party of ‘NO’” douche bags and Democrat weenies who’re all wetpants scared of ‘em.

But America has a government that is of, by and for the people, so we, the people, really have no one else to blame but ourselves, and our pride.