taxes

I like taxes. It reminds me that I'm fortunate enough to make money and gives me the (false?) good feeling that the money is going towards making the whole of our society better by giving to the needy so they don't break into my house or mug my friends or family in the street.

Now, if only the government could tap into the gazillions of profits our oligopolous banks are making off our backs as effectively as it taxes us at the gas pump (right now they're all being declared in offshore tax havens), maybe that money could we finally go to fixing the health care system rather than buying new plasma TVs and collection Ferrarris for the already uber-rich foreign mega-shareholders...