Hate’em, hate’m, hate’m! Yes, I’m done and brought them to the Post Office to send them to the IRS (certified / registered). Look, as a Conservative, I do believe that Government is necessary:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
As our Declaration declares (yeah, I know), the main purpose of Government is NOT to rule over us but to protect pre-existing Rights that come, not as a gift or as a decree from Government, but simply as an attribute of being a human. Thus, I have no problem in paying for a Limited Government that does exactly that, at the Federal level, and leaves me the heck alone the rest of the time. A government that protects me against the clutches of others – including Government. Nowhere in the Declaration or the Constitution does it say that Government is the scientist that gets to use us for social experimentation or that it is supposed to shove ‘guide’ us to some dystopian idea of their version of Utopia. So I pay, grudgingly. Like a skinflint. And I hope the people that spend it have the same outlook (like I tried to have when on my local Budget Committee). Sad to say, I doubt it (when often, on that same BudComm, I saw some act no different than a teenager with a “nothing on it” credit card that has their name on it). Like these folks:
A Third of Americans Say They Like Doing Their Income Taxes
…However, about a third (34%) say they either like (29%) or love (5%) doing their taxes.
No, I am not one of those people – IMHO, these people literally must have nothing better to do!
