Taxes *shudder* Ooooo say it again.

As a nation we’ve cut the satellite TV, ditched the cell phones, replaced the flashy sports car with a sensible economy model and started using the cheap crappy shampoo. Must we really subsist only on ramen noodles, have the power shut off and have our home foreclosed on before we come to the realization that if we’re going to make it we are going to have to get a second job?

Tax. Don’t you just hate that word? I really hate that word. Know what’s worse? The inevitable collapse of our government if we can’t come to some sort of agreement on it.

I’m not saying just tax the rich, tax everyone. I’m willing to pay my share, meager as it may be. I agree government is too big and has been ridiculously wasteful, absolutely we need to fix it, but we also quite simply just need more money.

I don’t understand why you can compromise a health bill to death, okay, to the point where it’s death would have been preferable, but you can’t budge on this issue. Oh wait, I do understand. It’s about being greedy bastards. The insurance companies are poised to make more money than ever before because of this mutated monstrosity of a well-intended health care plan. Those monies will then move along to lobbyists and re-election campaigns, oh and I almost forgot, the favorite ‘charitable’ foundations of our elected officials.

For them it’s all about the dollars folks, they want to make as much of it as they can, and hold onto as much of it as they can. I can’t really blame them for that, as I’ve said before, I am a capitalist, but this is capitalism at the expense of everything else. This is plain and simple greed.

I may have to vote liberal next election.