I paid my taxes yesterday, a full day early. I figured there was no sense waiting until the last minute. Despite paying thousands and thousands of dollars throughout the year, I still had to pony up another grand for the fed. Having been unemployed for the past four and a half months, I'm a bit bitter about it.

For 2002, I paid over 30% of my income in taxes. I am not rich, and despite what Dick 'head' Gebhardt says, I have not "won life's lottery". Now I have to listen to Dick whine that tax cuts have not "done anything other than enrich the wealthiest people in the country." Gebhardt and his lackeys are the reason I will never vote Democratic again. And if Bush and the spend thrift Republicans don't get their shit together, it'll be Libertarian or nothing for me. If no Libertarian candidates run in my district, I might be forced to break my own rule and throw my hat into the ring myself.

By far, gun rights and taxes are my two biggest pet peeves. Smoking rights aren't far behind. I've always prided myself as a strict Constitutionalist. I don't think that taxpayer dollars should be spent aiding foreign nations and the U.N., when all they do is turn around and shit all over us. Forcibly seizing taxes from hard working Americans in the name of 'charity' is both despicable and Unconstitutional. Democrats have developing a system where a minority of people pay the majority of taxes. That majority is in turn bribed with programs and 'free' money that ensures their continued support at the voting booth. He who robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.