IRS Seeks Wesley Snipes Crucifixion

I know a guy named Harry. Harry went into the Navy after getting thrown out of High School. Having never before engaged in any gainful employment, he was not familiar with the ways of the income tax. So he sought the advise of one of his drinking buddies, who told him the trick was to never file, and then you don't get in the government system.

Surprisingly, this worked real well for Harry. After getting tossed out of the Navy, he became a drywaller in New England, but his real passion was the distribution of drugs and weapons. And Harry never paid taxes on the millions that passed through his hands.

As usually happens with lame brained criminals, the DEA caught up with Harry. Like so many criminals do, who are facing 212 months in the federal pen, and twenty-five years at MCI-Cedar Junction, Harry saw the light and became a snitch.

After being severely punished with six months in a county jail, the IRS stopped by. At first Harry was a little concerned, but they were more than happy to give him amnesty.

I was reminded of Harry yesterday, when we all dutifully logged on to Turbotax or headed down to the Post Office to file our income tax returns.

Federal Prosecutors chose Tax Day to make an example of Wesley Snipes. They are asking the judge to throw Wesley in the can for three years, because he failed to file his return.

They say they want to make an example of him. Kinda like how the English used to put the head of pickpockets on a pole at the entrance to the village.

Thats how the system works. Harry gets amnesty and Wesley's head is jammed on a spike.

It makes all us commoners not only behave, but feel good and righteous about it.

We find it outrageous that Wesley was not doing his part in contributing a third of his salary to help the federal government pay off the interest they owe to our Chinese and Arab creditors.

But it pleases us if we are able to get a $400 refund, and it is so nice Congress is going to send us a $600 rebate, though a lot of us have bills to pay, and won't be able to go down to Walmart, and do our patriotic duty by purchasing a whole bunch of crap imported from China.

For the life of me I do not understand why Americans are worse than cattle being led to the slaughterhouse.

Don't you think it would be nice to get a thirty percent raise? Or even ten or twenty—we could do this by just giving the boot to a sizeable chunk of the annoying bureaucrats at all levels of government. Then we could admit that World War II is over, and we don't need any more troops in Europe and Japan. And is there any reason for the federal government to subsidize Warren Buffet's medical care? I, for one, think we could afford to quit giving subsides to Exxon/Mobil.

The sad truth is that if Congress could get back to the level of spending in 1997, the income tax could be entirely eliminated.

Can you imagine what an extraordinary economic stimulus this would be?

But that is not going to happen.

The government wants to use the tax to mold us into being good little citizens.

We are rewarded with credits when we buy a Prius, or the goods of whatever corporation a lobbyist, soon to be felon, has persuaded Congress, with contributions to their favorite PAC, should be the recipient of the collateral financial benefits of some noble cause.

And the government needs something to reward the Harrys of the world with—nothing is more important than sntiches and rats who are willing to spy on the citizenry.

How dare Wesley Snipes defy our enlightened Congress, and their IRS henchmen.