Taxes and Civility

"Soft Green" by Drew John Tankersley

Happy sez-  Oliver Wendell Holmes jr., I believe once said "Taxes are what we pay for civilized society'', and if that is true then I think we are losing ground.  Taxes were a lot less in the past hundred even twenty-five years and society was a lot more civilized a hundred or even twenty-five years ago.  If a cowboy came back from the "Wild West"  a hundred years ago he would be horrified at the wanton violence, the violence for violence sake and the low value on life we have in todays modern world, and he would also be horrified at the amount of money, and control, the government extracts from you and exerts over you.  These thoughts, while not happy are true and the only way to make them happy is to do something about it, and doing something positive is a happy thought!

Just thought that this painting "Soft Green" is somehow appropriate for this post.

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