Why I Pay My Income Tax

Today there were a number of “Tea Parties” (protests over income taxation) all over the country. You may or may not have heard of these, but many people are fed up with the Government’s constant increasing of income tax at our expense.

Because the Tea Parties have been framed by the Main Stream Media as a “conservative” thing, many “liberals” got on Twitter today and started “tea bagging” the #teaparty discussion. There comments were mostly witticisms designed to ridicule the idea of legitimate protest of the income tax. Most were moronic and silly. After reading many of them I got fed up. Unthinking, unreasoning people who spout off without knowing what they are talking about sometimes push my button.

So I responded with my own set of witticisms. Maybe I shouldn’t have, but I did. So, I’m human.

Anyway. I was asked if there was a place where all 11 of my responses could be found, so I created this post to provide such a place. Without further ado, here are my top 11 reasons for why I pay my income tax, listed in no particular order:

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