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Posted on 04/16/2006 11:10:03 PM PDT by goldstategop
Since Washington is in such a forgiving and compassionate mode right now – preparing various pieces of legislation offering forgiveness and amnesty for millions and millions of people who have broken the immigration laws of the country, I have an idea.
Today is April 17, the last day Americans can postmark their tax returns for 2005. There's a mad scramble on at post offices all over the country. It's an annual ritual – made more complicated this year by the dates on which Easter and Good Friday fell.
But it illustrates the way hard-working, taxpaying American citizens jump through the hoops of the bureaucrats each year so they won't face fines and jail time for tax evasion.
Maybe taxpaying U.S. citizens should take a page from the lesson book of the illegal aliens.
It doesn't seem like they live in fear of jail time, fines or deportation. Instead, they are out in the streets today, as you read this, demanding their "rights." What rights are those? I don't know. As illegal aliens, they have no rights of U.S. citizenship. And, as lawbreakers, they should have every expectation of being dealt with harshly by authorities.
But they don't.
They understand there is power in numbers. And, thanks to years of neglect of our borders and immigration laws by Washington politicians of both parties, the illegals have the numbers.
So they do not ask for mercy. They do not ask for forgiveness. They do not ask for leniency. Instead, they demand that Washington heed their cries – not just for amnesty, but for reparations for years of imagined abuse and injustice, for control of a land they say is rightfully theirs as "indigenous" peoples and for special favors based on their ethnic background and history of "persecution."
I have a better idea.
How about a little consideration – a little forgiveness, a little amnesty, a little compassion for the people who really make this country work?
What would be wrong with a tax amnesty?
How about wiping the slate clean for all those facing late fees and non-filing fines?
Since it is so important to Washington to bring the illegals into the system, how about making an effort to do the same for U.S. citizens who have done no more than missed a tax payment or a filing deadline?
How about stopping all of the intrusive audits of American citizens?
How about allowing anyone who "cheated" on a prior year to register for leniency like the illegal aliens will be asked to do under the various amnesty programs being debated?
The mere fact that no one is debating any such tax amnesty program in Washington today suggests that American citizens continue to be viewed by the politicians and bureaucracy as "patsies." You will take whatever they dish out without protest. You won't take to the streets. You won't demand accountability. You won't push your weight around.
In fact, you will be forced to carry a bigger and bigger load. You will pay more in taxes, more in health-care insurance, more in school-bond measures, more for police patrols, more for graffiti-removal, more for car insurance and so forth.
Mark my words: If you don't stand up to be counted today, your birthright as a U.S. citizen will be rendered meaningless. The rule of law will be a thing of the past. The will of the people will mean only mob rule.
It's time for amnesty, all right. It's time for amnesty for American citizens who have taken it on the chin for too long. We don't need forgiveness. We just demand that the crimes being perpetrated against us stop right now.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
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They're doing it already for the illegal immigrants. Time to do it for the citizens.
THE ILLEGALS DO HAVE RIGHTS AND I SUPPORT THEM 100%. The right to be DEPORTED. It's the law.All the whore senators have to do is read the law books.
Hasn't this already come to pass? It seems like were just a bunch of tax slaves.
WELNA: What's more, majority leader Frist is backpedaling from his initial support for the Senate compromise, which allows those who've been in the country illegally at least five years, to pursue citizenship. Frist, who's made it clear he'd like to be the next president, told NPR the bill goes too far, and amounts to an amnesty.
Sen. FRIST: When we bring it back, there will be amendments to modify--in the temporary worker program, and probably in the 12-15 million people who are coming out of the shadows--to pull back on the amnesty provisions. I would pull back on the amnesty provisions and will support those amendments.
This is good news if true, especially since we're now hearing Hastert supports amnesty but I wish these guys would stop shifting all over the place. One day they're for it, then against, then for, then against...
It's real simple doc, put an enforcement bill out there that secures the borders and worry about the illegals later. If the democrats fight it then paint them the obstructionists everyone knows they are.
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