Getting the Rangel, Dodd, Frank, Daschle and Geithner Treatment

I have to admit to not being a great Glenn Beck radio fan.

In my humble, but correct, opinion, he is better on TV than he is on radio.

Sometimes I can't follow his train of thought...assuming he has one at the time I am listening.

I wholeheartedly agree with his assessment of where we are as a nation, however, and with where we ought to be, but can't seem to get.

Nevertheless, I do listen to a portion of his show daily, and today he read a very significant letter "written" by a citizen named Ed Barnett to the IRS.

Here is the text of the letter:

Dear IRS,

I'm sorry to inform you that I'm not going to be able to pay the taxes owed on April 15th, but all is not lost.

I paid these taxes:

accounts receivable tax,
building permit tax,
CDL tax,
corporate income tax,
dog license tax,
federal income tax,
unemployment tax,
gas tax,
hunting license tax,
fishing license tax,
waterfowl stamp tax,
inheritance tax,
inventory tax,
liquor tax,
luxury tax,
Medicare tax,
city tax,
school and county property tax up to 33% the last four years.
Real estate tax,
Social Security tax,
road use tax,
toll road tax,
state and city sales tax,
recreational vehicle tax,
sales franchise tax,
state unemployment tax,
federal excise tax,
telephone tax,
telephone federal state and local surcharge tax,
telephone minimum usage surcharge tax,
telephone state and local tax,
utility tax,
vehicle tax,
registration tax,
capital gains tax,
lease severance tax,
oil and gas assessment tax,
Colorado property tax,
Texas, Colorado, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Mexico sales tax

and many more I can't recall and I've run out of space and money.

When you do not receive my check April 15th, just know that it was an honest mistake.

Please treat me the same as the way you've treated Congressmen Charlie Rangel, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, ex-congressman Tom Daschle and, of course, your boss, Timothy Geithner.

No penalties, no interest.

PS, I'll make at least a partial payment as soon as I get my stimulus check.

Ed Barnett, Wichita Falls.

When you visit Ed in jail, please tell him how much I appreciate the stand he took and the courage he showed by naming those reprobate politicians in his letter.

There are those of you out there who voted for those bums (and/or the ones who appointed them), and you are not one whit better than they are.

Being an equal opportunity basher, let me hasten to say that the list of politicians is not limited to those mentioned in Ed's letter.

I am so angry at politicians in general, Democrat and Republican, that I could spit...only there's a fine for that in my town.

Democrats take an entirely wrong approach to what The United States of America is about, while the Republicans are so mealy-mouthed as to have let themselves be virtually silenced, just because they are the minority party.

When's the last time you experienced a silenced Democrat politician when they were in the minority? It never happened.

I, for one, support the various "tea parties" that have been going on around the country.

Glenn Beck's plan of gathering people together in they towns to "surround" the Democrats and other liberals with a strong conservative voice is worthy of consideration, too.

What do you suppose would happen if we staged a "Tax Rebellion Day?" We could choose April 15th and all agree not to pay a penny of Income Tax at least until June 3rd.

It's not that we would not pay, we would just delay payment to get the government's attention, letting them know how frustrated we are at the way they've been doing business since at least 1977.

There's grave danger here.

If we were too small in number, the government would simply enjoy the process of fining and/or jailing the offenders.

But if enough people did it, jailing us would be impractical.

Give it some thought and let me know what you think.