Consti here coming to you from the Bunker vault where I am trying to find a spare $45,000. So far all I’ve come up with is a piggy bank with about three fiddy in it. I’m looking for the $45 large so that I can pay my fair share of the Federal Deficit. At that point I feel my part will have been played and I can stop paying my taxes. The idea goes something like this.
“Dear Mr. President, Madame Speaker, government official, IRS lackey, or Federal Reserve agent.
Please find enclosed a check in the amount of $45,000 USD to pay my portion of the Federal Deficit. This payment should clear any accounts I currently hold with the Federal Government. Please note that at this time I do not approve of the spending policies of your administration. Therefore no further payments to the national debt only will be paid by myself in the form of income tax, sales tax, estate tax, enviro tax, etc. Since Washington has shown itself to spend the people’s money like a drunken sailor on shore leave and owing $3.3 BILLION in back taxes. I feel that my past payments and any made in the future will simply be wasted.
Moving forward should the Federal Government choose to fund any program it will have to do so with the allotted amount it receives from tax payer’s yearly income taxes. (Operational costs) Should this amount prove not to be sufficient then it will be the responsibility of Washington to recover money from tax cheats (see Charlie Wrangle) or pay the going rate for Medicare supplies instead of the overpayments that are currently being made. Should the Government find itself still unable to pay its operational costs then programs will have to be cut in order to maintain fiscal responsibility.
I and many other citizens of this country find your lack of fiscal discipline disturbing. The Government does not generate a profit, it simply consumes money. In any business this would be considered a loss leader and would be line itemed out of the budget. This is your written warning that the people you work for, whose money you spend so freely are tired of carrying the debt you have created in our names. Should you not be able to maintain this fiscal balance the people of this country will have no choice but to fire you and replace you with someone who is willing to operate within budget parameters.
We have heard on several occasions how you “inherited” this fiscal problem. Like an employee failing to produce due to another employees fault. Excuses will not be tolerated. We hired you for this position based on your promises of hope and change. A company or family cannot feed themselves on hope. And by using the excuse of previous administrations you are neglecting the fact that for the past year this has been YOUR responsibility. It’s time for you to take responsibility for your actions so DO YOUR JOB. Or as previously stated we the people will HOLD you responsible.
Please feel free to contact me should you have any further questions.
Sincerely
Your bosses, the American Public.”
“Consti you are living in a dream world!’ Yes. Yes I am in this instance. It would be nice if everyone could just send in their $45 large and be done with the shenanigans. Unfortunately most people don’t have $45 grand just lying around. Most people are lucky if they are working and making more than $10 an hour. Yet our government (the people we voted into office on BOTH sides) seems to think that there is all this money available to them to fund $150 million dollar airports that have only 3 commercial flights a week. (Yes Mr. Murtha I am looking at you.) Or spending $101,000 on food and booze. (Madame Speaker.) The waste of flying children only on a military flight when the Representative is not present. (Yes Pelosi I am looking at you again.) There are currently people in the Government who are spending YOUR money simply to insure they stay in power in Washington. Everyone talks about greed, but very little is done to stop it.
Just imagine for a moment the message it would send Washington if the ENTIRE country refused to pay its taxes for just ONE day. The fiscal impact would be amazing! And really what would they be able to do about it? Arrest 300 billion people? The IRS doesn’t have the man power to audit what’s on the books now let alone the whole country. Washington would be left to stand there with their hat in their hands like any other beggar asking the public to “please help the less fortunate.” Less fortunate meaning government. In 1773 a small group of people who refused to pay any more taxes to England dumped a cargo of Tea into the Boston harbor. We should learn from our history. This country started out by rebelling against unfair and unjust government taxation. Why in this day and age do we settle for the same treatment from the people WE put in power?
Yes I know that this will never happen. But it is nice to hope and dream. Since we didn’t get any from the last election. Until the people of this country stand up in unison and say “NO MORE” we can expect to watch our money, earned with OUR SWEAT not theirs, be spent on useless programs and wasted on over payments.
I’m going back to bed to dream some more. Maybe I’ll dream about winning the Nobel Prize just for getting elected.
Consti. >Zzzzz<
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