How do I love thee? Let me count the ways:
- Thou taxest me.
- Thou payest disability to people who aren’t disabled.
- Thou payest for ad campaigns to sell food stamps to those who don’t need it.
- Thou hast thine own community organizing effort that tells people what to tell their Congresscritters so they can grow government.
- Thou tellest me Social Security and Medicare aren’t broke, and that I ought not worry about the federal deficit.
- Thou encouragest the building of passenger rail where economists say it is not sensible.
- Thou requirest master plans for everything.
- Thou callest me a domestic terrorist.
- Thou raisest my insurance rates.
- Thou wagest a war on poverty that increases poverty.
- Thou wagest a war on drugs that increases illegal drug sales.
- Thou choosest which banks can fail and which should succeed.
- Thou givest thyself thine own automobile company.
- Thou art attempting to give thyself the healthcare industry.
- Thou wantest me to power my home Gilligan’s Island style.
- Thou hast money from working taxpayers who don’t have time to give to unemployed people who do to go to college.
- Thou encouragest unsound lending practices.
- Thou ignorest basic economics and tellest me to do the same.
- Thou thinkest naked body scanners constitute not unreasonable searches.
- Thou ignorest the Bill of Rights except thou hast not yet asked me to quarter troops.
- Thou createst tiny free speech zones.
- Thou wantest to own the healthcare industry so bad, thou wilt bribe and break every rule of Congress if necessary.
- Thou passest legislation so verbose, lawyers and insurance agents are still trying to figure out what it says.
- Thou likest GE campaign contributions enough to make us all buy curly-fry lightbulbs.
- Thou makest several banks accept thy bailout money to cover up thine handing out of tax revenues to the mismanaged businesses of thy favorite sons.
- Thou makest the good banks pay back the unwanted bailout money with interest.
- Thou makest no attempt to account for the interest and returned bailout funds.
- Thou forcest state and local govenrments to accept thy stimulus.
- Thou growest employment in the public sector at the expense of the public sector.
- Thou lovest paperwork and continually require more.
- Thou allowest judges to make un-Constitutional law.
- Thou allowest thy Congressmen to form agencies with unelected bureaucrats that pass and enforce their own laws and try them in their own courts.
- Thou createst czars.
- Thou requirest me to carry insurance.
- Thou acceptest Waxman’s marathon drafts when nobody can write all the words in their hearts.
- Thou pretendest the strange numbers of the CBO are realistic.
- Thou openest not thy books to the public as the Bush Administration did.
- Thou wouldst have us believe we are smart enough to outsmart the CIA, and that intelligence officers are stupid bunglers.
- Thou causest educators to focus more on paperwork and hoops than educating.
- Thou wantest more voters to join unions, and then thou wantest to subject them to card check.
- Thou pretendest goons do not exist and all your laws can be executed by infallible angels.
- Thou likest people to become dependent on thy programs.
- Thou pretendest economies can consist of paper and not products.
- Thou wantest prices to be what the buyer wants without regard to reasonable compensation to sellers.
- Thou pretendest granting special privileges to special interests has no economic impact.
- Thou regulatest domestic industry sufficient for it to go overseas to realize a profit.
- Thou preferrest broad-brush, remote control to trusting people to make their own decisions.
- Thou payest states to pay corporate welfare to businesses of their choice.
- Thou payest local governments to hire more public safety officers, thus expanding local government budgets.
- Thou givest local governments money to buy Homeland Security wizmo-gizmos to impress the masses in citizens’ police academies.
- Thou hast made us guilty until proven innocent.
- Thou promotest those bureaucrats who perpetuate the problems they’re supposed to solve.
- Thou createst an IRS in which two agents seldom give the same answer.
- Thou createst campaign election reform legislation with basic interpretations debated by lawyers.
- Thou thinkest “Interstate Commerce” and “General Welfare” mean “everything.”
- Thou sayest the document that limits thy powers is scrap and doest as thou pleasest.
- Thou ignorest the supply side in thy public presentations.
- Thou jumblest private-sector budgets by requiring historical surveys &c.
- Thou takest over private-sector jobs and then undercuttest the competition with thy taxing power.
- Thou tellest the public that printing money and transferring jobs to the public sector increases goods and services that raise their standard of living.
Well, I’m just getting started, and I have to go change the laundry loads, now. The point is, FreedomWorks would like you to celebrate tax day by joining a ruckus near you.
