I’m writing this at Eastertime, so Happy Easter to all of you. The Resurrection of our Lord is the cornerstone of our Christian faith. It is also the time of renewal, when the birds return from the south, and the plants and flowers bloom gloriously. The weather warms up, and the miracle of life is on display everywhere.

But it’s also a time when we are reminded, with a figurative blow to the head, that we must submit to the tyrants who misrule us at every level. If you don’t file your taxes, the IRS may be coming for you. You know, the agency that Trump talked about abolishing last year. Right around the same time he suggested that we may not need any more taxes. Right about the time he proposed that no one making less than $250,000 pay taxes. I liked that Trumpenstein a lot better than the delirious warmonger we have now. Trump promised to get rid of taxes on tips. And overtime. And important from my perspective, on Social Security. Thanks to “anti-tax” legend Ronald Reagan, the elderly began paying taxes on their Social Security payments in the 1980s, if they had more than a token amount of other income. Of course, this was the definition of a double tax, since those monthly payments are simply returning in increments your money that was involuntarily withheld from you as an employee.

I wasn’t really surprised to find that Trump had lied bigly about how his new $6,000 deduction for those over 65, amounted to the same thing as eliminating Social Security taxes. Which he promised to do. Of course, that didn’t prove to be the case. Our additional $12,000 in deductions had virtually no impact on our statement at all. I still owed taxes on about 85% of my Social Security income. Overall, we paid about $200 less than last year. Before the big and beautiful tax deduction for oldsters. That’s the way the rotten system always works- it never benefits the people. It’s a render onto Caesar thing, you wouldn’t understand. And the tax preparer asked us if we had any tips or overtime income. Hmm. I thought it was reported that Trumpenstein actually did eliminate taxes on those. So why did they ask us that, then? I hated the process of filing taxes even when I used to get a refund. It’s unbearable when you know you’re going to be paying. As if the taxes paid all year weren’t already more than enough.

We go to one of the local stations where AARP volunteers do your taxes for free. So at least I’m not paying hundreds of dollars to H & R Block to learn that I owe even more to this worthless government. The place was full of oldsters, with the walkers, oxygen tubes, canes, and unnecessary masks front and center. We sat near a far too chatty woman who was loudly sharing her own slew of maladies with all those around her. She wanted everyone to know just which type of diabetes she had. Apparently she takes care of her mother, who must be very, very old. We were asked to produce the exact same IDs three times; to the receptionist, the person who did our taxes, and the person who fact checked the return. I don’t even question this lunacy any more, but it’s an advertisement to any critical thinkers who may still exist that those representing this collapsing Banana Republic in any way, shape, or form are unquestioning automatons. They just love to ask for your ID. Unless you’re voting.

It was a grueling three and a half hours. I was forced to observe my American peers, and that is never a pleasant experience. I saw nothing but vacant placidity in their eyes. Their main preoccupation seemed to be keeping track of their many medications. And their regular doctor appointments. Maybe bragging about their grandkids. There was no room in there for questioning the senseless ordeal we were all forced to go through, to unjustifiably honor the corruption and incompetence, let alone protest anything else. How could there be a “balance owed?” Owed for what exactly? The potholes that litter every road? The ancient power grids with the Chinese sensors? Medicare, which pays you back in increments the money stolen from you over a working lifetime, and charges you an ever increasing monthly fee to do so? While only giving you 80% medical coverage, forcing you to buy supplemental insurance? Our corrupt intelligence agencies and Military Industrial Complex?

As you can see from the photo above, Trump asked the House to abolish the income tax. At some point. Don’t know what happened to that. Consider that the Republicans, historically renowned as the Stupid Party, control both the House and Senate. And the White House. And have a majority on the Supreme Court. But these “anti-tax” advocates clearly had no desire to bring this to a vote. Trump had the same luxury of controlling both houses of Congress during the first two years of Trump 1.0. And they did absolutely nothing. Now the new, Snidely Whiplash-version of Trumpenstein has a meaningless war to fight. A really expensive meaningless war. It looks like we’re headed for boots on the ground. American boots. The Israelis have already told him that we’re on our own in protecting their interests. They’re busy with things like passing a law legalizing the hanging of Palestinians. Pushup Pete Hegseth responds by quoting the bloodiest sections of the Old Testament. No time to end taxes.

We don’t even know what our tax dollars pay for. People I trust have claimed that withholding taxes go exclusively to paying the interest on the national debt, and not to any services. Well, that would be about what you’d expect from these incomparably awful leaders. How do we pay down a debt that was created out of nothing? As I’ve said a million times, the national debt should be repudiated. It isn’t our debt. We didn’t sign off on any of it. But I seem to be the only one saying that. Perhaps if we had a true socialist system like France, whereby the citizens do get real services in return for their taxes, I might feel a little better. Not that I’m advocating socialism. But we have what I call socialism without services in this country. We are taxed at a cradle to grave rate, yet receive virtually nothing in return. An embarrassing, crumbling infrastructure. Out of control police that the Supreme Court has ruled are under no obligation to “protect” us. A bloated bureaucracy full of fraud and waste.

Our Founders fought a war for independence over meager taxes on stamps and tea. They angrily objected to taxation without representation. Just what do we have now, other than taxation without representation? Our taxes don’t pay for any meaningful government function. We only saw a small glimpse of what they do fund in those tantalizingly brief DOGE revelations. Like over 6,000 journalists all across the world, who promulgate official state lies via a massive expansion of Operation Mockingbird. Or footing the bill for vacuous celebrities to meet and embrace the penis-piano playing former comedian running Ukraine. I’m sure what will now be $1.5 trillion for the Pentagon will be well spent. No chicanery there. How many other examples of localized corruption are there, like the Somalian daycare center fraud? By the way, who has been punished for that? Is Tim Walz still governor? If only Trumpenstein would treat his political foes like he treats Iran. Call them fucking bastards.

Besides the involuntary withholding tax, we are still forced to pay property taxes. Why are we compelled to keep paying taxes on homes and cars which we’ve already purchased? The Republicans, whose primary issue is always “low taxes,” never mention this. The only taxes they are concerned with are corporate taxes, estate taxes, capital gains taxes, and slashing the highest tax rates for the wealthiest Americans. That’s who they really “represent.” Well, and Israel, of course. When you pay so many different taxes, you should have a right to know what your money is being spent on. DOGE was a fledgling attempt to do just that. If you recall the reaction, the entire Left objected to you knowing where your tax dollars are going. Most of the Right wasn’t exactly thrilled with it, either. Theoretically, there should a digital ledger somewhere, listing assets and expenses. Like we see on our own bank statements. You’d be laughed out of any group conversation for even suggesting such a thing.

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