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Political Language: Why I Pay My Taxes with a Smile

ilyagerner:

“Self made men, indeed! Why don’t you tell me of the self-laid egg?”

— Francis Leiber, 1882

Satisfaction is probably the last word that comes to mind when filling out Internal Revenue Service Form 1040. I’m no masochist, and it does get a little hairy somewhere between Schedule A…

Really puts things into perspective. Not all of us are happy to see the cash we ‘earned’ go to the faceless bureaucracy of government, but it does help to remember that it is (or at least, can and should be) used for valuable and important services.