How to communicate with the Taxman.......

Actual 'Letter to the Editor' from the February 5th edition of the Wichita Falls, Texas, Times Record Newspaper.

Dear IRS,

I am sorry to inform you that I will not be able to pay taxes owed April 15, but all is not lost. I have paid these taxes: accounts receivable tax, building permit tax, CDL tax, cigarette tax, corporate income tax, dog licence tax, federal income tax,
unemployment tax, gasoline tax, hunting licence tax, fishing licence tax, waterfowl stamp tax, inheritance tax, inventory tax, liquor tax, luxury tax, medicare tax, city, school and county property tax (up 33 percent last 4 years), real estate tax,
social security tax, road usage tax, toll road tax, state and city sales tax, recreational vehicle tax, state franchise tax, state unemployment tax, telephone federal excise tax, telephone federal state and local surcharge tax, telephone minimum usage surcharge tax, telephone state and local tax, utility tax, vehicle licence registration tax, capitol gains tax, lease severance tax, oil and gas assessment tax, Colorado property tax, Texas, Colorado, Wyoming, Oklahoma and New Mexico sales tax, and many more that I can't recall but I have run out of space and
money.

When you do not receive my check April 15, just know that it is an honest mistake. Please treat me the same way you treated Congressmen Charles Rangle, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank and ex-Congressman Tom Dashelle and, of course, your boss Timothy Geithner. No penalties and no interest.

P.S. I will make at least a partial payment as soon
as I get my stimulus check.

Ed Barnett
Wichita Falls


H/T Rico who writes....

'I'm NOT bothering with snopes.com because whether true or not, the following makes a valid point: your average 'shnook' taxpayer caught cheating (or making an honest 'mistake') on his taxes is pilloried, drawn-and-quartered, and sometimes jailed after being financially ruined by the IRS...but if you're a HUGE tax-cheat like Tom Daschle (D) and a bevy of OTHER recent ObaMarx administration picks....hey, how about that Timmy Geithner at Treasury (in charge of the IRS), huh?.....paying the 'back' taxes and (maybe) mumbling a chagrined "oopsie" is good enough for government work! No hand-slaps or hand-wringing for them.

MOST of us would LOVE the chance to be making so much money by being a librul Democrat that a few hundred thousand in taxes due can be 'overlooked' with no penalty!

Once again...THANK YOU TEAM OBAMA for the most open-and-honest-government-evah!!!
.....hmmmmmm, what will gooberment do if everyone changes their name to John Galt and quits paying their taxes? It's probably best if they ALL register as (D) voters concurrently with their application for food stamps/welfare.'