What a joy, relatives, in-laws actually have come to visit. They’re big gooferment proponents. They work for the gooferment. So how can the gooferment be bad? They listen to me rant and rave. But, at dinner, with a slew of in-laws, it was amusing to hear them all talk about property taxes. One of the local in-laws pulled out her property tax “statement”, and reported that 63% of the property taxes went to “education”. And, from there the fun began. I got my digs in often about taxes being theft. It was great to see all the statists squabble about high taxes being whose fault. I, of course, mentioned that they should imagine what they could buy if they could keep their own money. People can’t believe that we ever had no taxes. Wow! What fun.

I have to remember the lipstick on the pig. It doesn’t make the pig any prettier and annoys the pig.

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