You're not a tax evader, are you?

Have you paid your special Bush, Cheney, McCain tax? You didn’t know about the special assessment? Well not everyone pays it, just those left holding the bag. When the Bush, Cheney, McCain group – now seeking its third term – deregulated everything turned the economy into musical bubbles, somebody had to pay. It’s kind of like that old bank scam where you’re left with newspaper clippings in a brown bag while the perps drive off.

For example, if you bought into the dot.com bubble and got left holding the bag, you paid. Luckily, I didn’t have any money for that one and didn’t get dunned a red cent. Another good one, if you bought financial stock – or even held it in a mutual fund while the big boys stripped them clean, you paid. I got third degree burns from that one – although on a very small percentage of my body.

I got rich on my house as the housing bubble expanded. Too bad I didn’t cash in before that one burst. I only got second degree burns on that one, but the fire’s still burning, so I don’t know what the final tax on that one will be.

The stock market tax – you didn’t know? Yeah, the rate on that one has been holding at twenty percent for a long while. Given that it was only everything I’d saved over fifty years, that’s not bad, just a little higher than capital gains.

Some of my friends and neighbors are still in burn units – third degree over their entire bodies. They must have been rich to get into that bracket.

I heard that the folks in on most of the really hot hedge funds got out before the blast and have millions available to invest when this all turns around. I feel good about that; those are the folks with the creativity to make the economy hum.

I know that everybody who reads blogs is among that top one tenth of one percent of those who made it big, so when you vote for the third term for Bush, Cheney, McCain, please understand that those of us who’re paid up in our tax would like to make a change before the rates go up still further.

You mean you’re not in that top tenth of… Well I’ll be damned.

You’re b.s.n’ me. And you’re still voting republican? How about that!

53 days until the election.