Tax Day USA
I just paid my taxes. It was fairly easy, see I just have the one job. I did some simple arithmetic -no big whoop, even got some money back. I was elated for a half-second until I realized that I really overpaid and that's why I'm receiving instead of giving more. Wouldn't it be great if you could actually follow the individual dollars that you give to the government? An individual dollar of mine might start out slow, sit in a coffer for a while, a secret account only the government knows about. Then it would be whisked away by an appropriation decree by Congress. Most likely it would go into the manufacture of a
bomb or a large helicopter. Maybe it would go to fund the summer internship of a young person working for the Senate, or maybe it would fund some risqué art that the NEA liked. No matter how you slice it, it's not how I would spend it, and that is the problem with government. It's like giving money to a homeless guy who you know will just spend it on booze, or worse, a tasteless housewife who will just go to Target and buy bad plastic bathroom accoutrements. There's no way around it really, it's just the price you pay to be an American, whatever that means.
BTW, Capt., your Mac fonts look fine.
