For Americans, April 15 is a singularly remarkable calendar date. it is the day our taxes are due the U. S. government Department of Internal Revenue, and as good citizens we are required to either write a check or qualify for a rebate if we have overpaid. Most of us regard the duty to pay our taxes as inconvenient at best and abhorrent at worst. Whichever is your attitude, it is the price we pay for living in the greatest place on the globe.
Do I like paying taxes? No. do I want to pay more? No. Could I skip it altogether? Sure. Does anybody really want to have less and owe more? I doubt it. For as much as we gripe and grumble and curse the tax paying process, though, it is still the greatest privilege in the world to be born an American.
I heard someone say once that the poorest U. S. citizens are better off than eighty percent of the world, simply by virtue of the fact that we can turn on any spigot anywhere in the country and have immediate fresh clean running water. I believe that. Ever been without clean water? Ever?
I do not wholly subscribe to any ideology, I doubt many do. I cannot say that I’ve attended a great many rallies, protests or tea parties, either. I can honestly say, though, that the bitter pill of April 15 goes down a little easier when i wash it down with a tall cold glass of fresh clean water.
God bless the USA.
the trouble is the tax code has been so fiddled with about half (47%) don’t pay any taxes at all so the rest of us are carrying their clean water for them
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