Teabagger's Unite!

For those that haven't had their fill of teabaggery.

Huffington Post has a nice page set up where you can smoother yourself in the tea-baggy goodness.

If I had to offer some insight on the 'Tax Day', it would probably be this: "No one likes paying taxes.".

Everyone for the most part would like their taxes to go down. No one likes to pay any bill.....that is not stripper, hooker or high class prostitute related.

What I find annoying about most of these protests, is the absolutely juvenile nature of the argument. The case is never made that taxes should be lowered and these programs should be cut as result of that. No it is always the extremely thin, "My taxes should be lowered. But I should still have all the benefit that we pay into!".

Though there is waste, taxes pay for our roads, schools, common defense, and a social safety net, things we all need and use.

Taxes are a necessary evil, much like peas and broccoli, that is why we ostensibly have our representatives; to keep it from being to onerous and to share the burden of our social compact evenly.

If you have a rationale why we should not be funding these things, then present it. Otherwise, it is just petulant whining.

There is a cogent case to be made for lower taxes or even the abrogation of the IRS, but those aren't the arguments being put forward. Mainly it seems it is the unrestrained anger of people whose ideas have been rejected by the public and reality at large.

Don't even get me started on the "flat" or "fair" tax......

-Cheers