The Rusted Musket

I love to buy things, money burns a hole in my pocket. I love Ebay and Amazon, I have been known to sacrifice past purchases on the alter of Criagslist in order to fund new purchases. I’m always thinking of the next new thing to buy. I admit that I need to work on my consumerist impulses but it occurred to me that these same traits would make me a great government tax hack. Think about it, we’re both in the perpetual pursuit of new toys or programs to spend all our money on. The difference though between my consumerism and the government tax hack is that I’m interested only in spending MY money, not MY NEIGHBORS. Thus the seesaw struggle and animosity between the two groups, the taxed and the tax man, because I’m not interested in giving the tax man more of my money, I’ve got plans for it, but of course so does he…