April 15, 2002

  • April 15th is that fateful day…


     


    …which one?


     


    You thought I’d say the Income Tax Filing Deadline Day?


     


    NaW…It’s the anniversary of the assassination of President Lincoln in 1865.


     


    That  day.  But it’s tax filing deadline, too.  Coincidence?   I’d bet not.  I’d bet when Congress established the federal income tax and April 15th as the filing date, that they debated when best to hammer us and decided that it would most propitiously be upon a day when true Americans might feel great remorse about a loss to their country—and back then, Abraham Lincoln’s death was still somewhat lamentably “recent”.  So who would dare stage a tax revolt on the anniversary of the loss of such a great American statesman?!  Unpatriots! They’d  say: Unpatriots all!!!


     


    Smart asses.


     


    But I have a new proposal that all Americans should embrace.  Let’s make Income Tax Filing Deadline Day  a floating holiday that coincides with Tax Freedom Day.  What’s that?   Tax Freedom Day is the day that it’s reckoned that the average American wage earner has worked far enough into the year to finally be free of his/her tax burden.  So this year, the day of tax liberation in America falls upon April 27th.  And making that day a national holiday would make splendid sense.  Why?  First, a lot of peeps still need the grace of the final day off to finish their taxes!  Or to recuperate from finishing their taxes the day before!  But more importantly, by pegging the due date for taxes to the variable and floating Tax Freedom Day (it’s computed on the actual tax burden, which historically has been increasing, but has decreased somewhat over the last two years), Americans get an appreciable calendar reminder of how much  they are being taxed. 


     



     


    And guess what? (No, not chicken butt )  If the holiday starts to wander farther and farther away again in future years, Americans can get doubly pissed:  Not only will they realize that more and more of their earned money’s being taken away, but they will become alarmed that their new-won paid holiday is slipping away, too!  Don’t mess with my friggin’ paid holiday!  You want to see a revolution, keep messing with my friggin’ holiday and try to explain to me that it is being set back again because I have to pay more taxes!!!


     


    So the patent pressure on Congress will become to keep Tax/Tax Freedom Day stable, if not occurring earlier every year.  Hell, we might as well make Tax/Tax Freedom Day Election Day, too!  Yes!  Let’s elect our representatives on the day when we’re most vividly reminded of what we pay for them to represent us.  Thusly, perhaps, the logically-unified Tax/Tax Freedom/Election Day may eventually work it’s way back to January 2nd.  Hey, a two-day holiday to kick off the New Year—now that ain’t bad.

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