Taxes!

There seems to be a lot of enjoyment on the part of some people (particularly those who bloviate on Talk Radio (I include Fox News Teevee in this category), who think that Democrats should all pay their Income Taxes. I agree, of course; I wonder, though, how many people do you know who can fill out a 1040 plus its many wierd and wonderful appendages without error? It's easy to laugh if you have only used a 1040EZ, but if you've had to traverse the minefields to be found in the More-Than-A-Thousand-Forms available Here, perhaps you know that errors are pretty much guaranteed. Or, perhaps, we can call them "Honest Mistakes". Unless they're made by prospective Presidential Appointees. Heck; I have difficulty even following the 1040EZ, or the 1040S, or whatever it's called these days; you know, the form for those of us who don't actually have any of those preferred-tax-treatment "finacial instruments".

I'm reminded that Ronald Reagan got busted for failure to pay California State Income Taxes - when he was Governor of California! He paid the taxes (plus penalties & interest), was forgiven, and went on to become President of the United States, where he did his level best to destroy the progressive tax system.

It's taken a few decades, but the seeds sown by Reagan appear to have borne fruit at last. Instead of Tax-And-Spend, which led to a long period of -admittedly intermittent- prosperity; we have now arrived at Don't-Tax-But-Spend-Anyway, which will lead to a permanent state of poverty for most, but lots of prosperity for the few.
It's George W. Bush's Ownership Society redux.