The opening paragraph is cute, but it's worse than that: thanks to the forced loan to the government at 0% interest (a.k.a. withholding), April 15 is the day most of us get back a little piece of what was rightfully ours. (I seem to recall forced loans to the crown were one reason some English king was removed by Parliament a few generations before our War of Independence--a precendent we inheritted, but didn't make proper use of.)