If someone you know is bragging that they didn’t have to pay any taxes yesterday because they cheated on their returns, there’s something you can do. Rat out a tax evader and the IRS will pay you up to 15 percent of the recovered taxes. Well, here’s where I am on that. Where are you? If I knew a crime had been committed: a robbery, or an assault, or any act where there was a real victim, I’d alert the authorities, and assist those officers in any way I could in the completion their sworn duties. But who has not noticed, we’re all being robbed by a system of taxes that was designed to be temporary in nature, but has instead become more and more unfair, intrusive, and uncapitalistic. In their ivory towers, those that should have nothing but our best interest, and the best interest of our republic in mind, feather their own nests at the expense of us all. From my way of thinking, we’re all the victims of a crime. Endless and worsening crimes from an arrogant hierarchy that answers to no one, yet enjoys the fruits of their constituency’s labor. We’re having laws dictated by a nonrepresentative government, and rules handed down by czars and a government that doesn’t have to abide by those very same rules themselves. That just ain’t fair. It’s the very type actions from the halls that used to house real leaders, that fostered “the shot heard round the world” on April 19th 1775. To those duly elected & sent to represent us, November is coming, and we are a free people whose limits of tolerance you’re rapidly approaching. Know that prior to this free and liberty demanding population’s next trip to the polls, or you will certainly know it after those polls have closed, and the votes have been counted. Would I tell on a tax cheat in exchange for a bounty from this former government of, by, and for the people? I can’t imagine that I would. We certainly, more out of fear than anything else, pay like most everyone else. But to the rebel with the courage and resolve to say, “No More!!” I’d more likely provide comfort & shelter. That’s this morning’s Small Town Soap Box.