Phew! Paying Taxes is Now Voluntary!

Whoo Hoo! You heard it here first! Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has declared that paying taxes in the US is now voluntary! Apparently it has been for some time but I guess I missed the announcement. Don't believe me? Just watch the interview below!



So, my liberal friends... Would you care to debate the merits of Senator Reid's argument? Nah, I didn't think so.

What's odd is that I don't see any evidence of blunt trauma to the head of Harry Reid or a barrel of empty Buds nearby...what else could explain this completely irrational fantasy that Reid seemingly believes that taxes are voluntary? Oh, yes! He's a liberal.

Reid is not just any liberal, he is the King of the Liberals. The proverbial Sugar Plumb Fairy of Liberalville.

In Reid's mind, "A is not A". "A is really B". Hot is cold and cold is hot. The reason that this comical clip is so scary is that Reid appears to genuinely believe that the decision to pay taxes or not pay taxes in the US can be described as "voluntary". But then again, look at how fast and loose the Dems use terms like "investment" and "stimulus" and "working Americans" and...well, you get the idea.

Rational, reasonable people who are guided by the product of their minds and not their feelings (or hopes or wishes or prayers) accept reality for what it is. If I drop a brick, currently suspended two-feet above my bare foot, I will soon feel extreme pain and will likely utter, uncontrollably, words I would not want my mother to hear. Liberals don't think that way. "Why does there have to be any pain in the world? Why don't we have a government program that provides steel-toed boots to all citizens of the world? How can we be so careless and cavalier with bricks when people around the world don't have any bricks?"

So, according to Senator Reid:

Paying taxes in the US is "voluntary" but if you don't do it, you can be imprisoned or fined, but paying taxes is still voluntary.

Paying taxes is "voluntary" because your employer only withholds some of your taxes (and if you don't have enough withheld you must pay a fine, unless you choose not to pay your voluntary taxes and are sent to prison and fined or both, twice.)

Paying taxes is "voluntary" because you can deduct mortgage interest before you pay your voluntary taxes.

Who thinks that the cynicism and treachery that characterized Bolshevik Russia in the late teens and early '20's was any more vile and wicked then that which we are hearing in this piece from the senior Senator from Nevada? Utter contempt for the people he is sworn to serve... Don't pee on my back and tell me it's raining.

So I'm left with the question... do 53% of American voters believe what Harry Reid is saying? Really?