A frog is a cat is a chimp is a boy

Don A, who's down in Florida enjoying the sun and warmth, sent me this link that points up yet another injustice in the tax system. After reading the article linked to below I'm infuriated that the government gave us a tax break for all those years when Alex was at home; but it has given us nothing, nothing in the way of a tax break for all the years that I've lavished care and attention and yes, love, on our little frog. All those years of cleaning out his little bowl every few weeks whether it needed it or not, all those years of hand feeding him his nutritious pellets, all those years of talking to him so he wouldn't be lonely, all those years of explaining why his past conduct made it impossible to consider allowing him the pleasure of entertaining another nice buxom tadpole in his bowl, all those years of psychologically counselling him to rebuild his little ego after he heard Linda suggest that he be put out on the ice.

All that expense and all that time and love lavished on him and not one little bit of a tax break from the government to help. Oh, the humanity!

http://cats.about.com/b/2009/02/16/heres-a-stimulus-idea-make-responsible-pet-care-deductible.htm

Another thing to remember as April 15th approaches

It turns out that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is a piker when it comes to cheating on his income taxes. Geithner only cheated to the tune of a mere $48,000 or so. Now we learn that Tom Daschle, President Barry's nominee to manage the hundreds of billions of dollars that is spewed out by the Health Education and Welfare Department honey pot cheated to the tune of over $150,000. At first Daschle tried to make it seem that he was "only" guilty of not reporting the use of a company car and driver that was provided for him by a special friend who no doubt did that for purely selfless purposes; but now we learn that Daschle also didn't report $83,000 of cash income that he was given for "consulting services."

Change we can believe in. . . income taxes are optional, reporting cash income is optional.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/01/more-daschle-ta.html

Remember this when you do your Federal Income Taxes

The President of the United States and Sixty United States Senators (50 Democrats and 10 Republicans) believe that blatantly cheating on your Income Taxes up to the level of tens of thousands of dollars is fair game. They further believe that "I forgot" is a perfectly good excuse and enough to absolve you of penalties if the IRS happens to catch you.

Six Senators believe that the question of whether government officials should pay their income taxes is not worth leaving their mistresses beds, so they didn't show up to vote.

Thirty Four Senators believe that someone who fails to pay their income taxes for four years should not become Secretary of the Treasury and the boss of the Internal Revenue Service.

Remember that when you do your taxes this April. If you use Turbo Tax you are especially absolved of all responsibility for any lying or cheating you do because that's what Timothy Geithner used to do his taxes when he purposely failed to pay his taxes from 2001 to 2004. When he was caught by the IRS in 2005 he paid the taxes he evaded (with no penalties) for the years 2003 and 2004. Only when he was nominated to be Secretary of the Treasury by President Barack Obama did he decide to pay the taxes he evaded for the years 2001 and 2002.

Aunt Mary R used to refer to politicians as "whoremasters." She was far too mild.

"I forgot" and "I made a mistake" are now perfectly good excuses for not paying your taxes. If that's not "Change we can believe in" I don't know what is.

Update - Michelle Malkin has helpfully provided a list of the 50 Democratic Party and 10 Republican Party Senators who just spit in the face of all common sense and decency by voting to confirm a demonstrated tax cheat as Secretary of the Treasury. If you know anyone who is related to or has ever worked for any of these shameless horse thieves you would be well advised to watch your wallet in the event you need to deal with them. If you live in a state that foolishly elected them to the Senate you could do worse than to remember their name and vote against them no matter who they are running against when next they stand for election.

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/26/the-bo-republicans-who-voted-for-geithner-and-video-of-inhofes-statement/