[lbo-talk] Take that, IRS!

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Thu Feb 18 14:38:25 PST 2010


On Feb 18, 2010, at 4:12 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote:


> At 12:39 PM 2/18/2010, Eli Naeher wrote:
>> my understanding is he was having tax
>> > problems yet also managed to throw in some rants about
>> > health care reform and the bank bailouts.
>>
>> He mostly complained about the slow pace of healthcare reform and the
>> unwillingness of the legislature to take on the insurance industry,
>> actually.
>
> B's right, it's mostly a rant against the IRS. It ends "Well Mr.
> Big Brother IRS Man, let's try something different; take my pound of
> flesh and sleep well.

No, that's *not* how it ends. This is how it ends:

The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.

Joe Stack (1956-2010)

Shane Mage


> Porphyry in his Abstinance from Animal Flesh suggests that there are
> appropriate offerings to all the Gods, and to the highest the only
> offering acceptable is silence.



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