A disgruntled taxpayer sent the following letter to the IRS in payment of his outstanding tax bill:
Dear Sir or Madam:
Enclosed is my 2003 Form 1040, together with payment. Please take note of the attached article from USA Today archives. In the article, you will note that the Pentagon paid $171.50 each for hammers and NASA paid $600.00 each for toilet seats.
Please find enclosed in this package four toilet seats (value $2,400.00) and six hammers (value $1,029.00). This is in payment for my total tax due of $3,429.00.
Out of a sense of patriotic duty, and to assist in the political purification of our government, I am also enclosing a 1.5 inch Phillips head screw, for which HUD duly recorded and approved a purchase value of $22.00, as my contribution to fulfill the Presidential Election Fund option on Form 1040.
It has been a pleasure to pay my taxes this year, and I look forward to paying them again next year in accordance with officially established government values.
Sincerely,
Another satisfied taxpayer
This story may be apocryphal, but it still illustrates nicely why so many Americans oppose tax increases.
Despite what some political elitists say, Americans have common sense. If their fourteen year old daughter got an allowance of $100 per month and then took $40 of it and flushed it down the toilet, I can assure you they wouldn’t “reward” her for that by giving her more money.
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1 Bruce // Sep 26, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Not sure were you found it but I’d love to hear the arguments on it all. As much as I like to think the IRS accepted the payment I am sure they didn’t.
Not to mention did they take the screw driver and give it to the candidates.
This is great.
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