Said a young child to his mother: "Mommy, the people got hurt?" Said a mother to her young child: "The bad guys hurt a lot of people but the good guys were able to save most of them." "The bad guys tried to take what is most precious. They succeeded three times. But they can't take everything. They can't take our strength. They can't take our freedom. And most of all they can't take our heroic humanity." "You see, Baby, through the worst of what those bad guys did, they brought out the best in our country, and in our world." "One terrible moment of inhumanity led to uncountable acts of great moments of humanity." "America is an awesome country. It is awesome not just for its leaders and government, but for and because of its people."
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Since the 15th was on a Sunday and Monday was an obscure holiday in Washington, D.C. called Emancipation Day, which celebrates the day in 1862 when Abraham Lincoln ordered all slaves in town to be freed and paid the former slave owners 300 bucks a head for their trouble, April 17 is Tax Day 2007. I filed my taxes like three months ago and have long since received my state and federal refunds, but there are always those who insist on waiting until the last possible second. I'm not sure why this is, other than blatant slothfulness, since the vast majority of people in the U.S. have paid their taxes already by having them automatically deducted from their …show more content…
I visited my girlfriend at the library Monday and there were still people coming in looking for tax forms. If it's the day before the deadline and you haven't even gotten the forms yet . . . all I can do is applaud. You are an inspiration to slackers and procrastinators the world over. I'm just as lazy as the next guy (lazier, even - I'm in college!), but I prefer to just get the whole tax thing over with as soon as I get the w-2 in the mail. It's not like I have a choice. Or do I? I do according to Aaron Russo. He produced the interminable documentary America: From Freedom to Fascism, where he and others claim that there is no written law anywhere in the United States legal code requiring any individual to pay income tax. "But Steve," you are no doubt saying to your monitors at this very moment, drawing quizzical stares from the others in your campus computer lab/Wi-Fi-equipped café, "aren't Mr. Russo and his friends overlooking the Sixteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, which clearly declares, 'The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among
Since the 15th was on a Sunday and Monday was an obscure holiday in Washington, D.C. called Emancipation Day, which celebrates the day in 1862 when Abraham Lincoln ordered all slaves in town to be freed and paid the former slave owners 300 bucks a head for their trouble, April 17 is Tax Day 2007. I filed my taxes like three months ago and have long since received my state and federal refunds, but there are always those who insist on waiting until the last possible second. I'm not sure why this is, other than blatant slothfulness, since the vast majority of people in the U.S. have paid their taxes already by having them automatically deducted from their …show more content…
I visited my girlfriend at the library Monday and there were still people coming in looking for tax forms. If it's the day before the deadline and you haven't even gotten the forms yet . . . all I can do is applaud. You are an inspiration to slackers and procrastinators the world over. I'm just as lazy as the next guy (lazier, even - I'm in college!), but I prefer to just get the whole tax thing over with as soon as I get the w-2 in the mail. It's not like I have a choice. Or do I? I do according to Aaron Russo. He produced the interminable documentary America: From Freedom to Fascism, where he and others claim that there is no written law anywhere in the United States legal code requiring any individual to pay income tax. "But Steve," you are no doubt saying to your monitors at this very moment, drawing quizzical stares from the others in your campus computer lab/Wi-Fi-equipped café, "aren't Mr. Russo and his friends overlooking the Sixteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, which clearly declares, 'The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among