Dear President Trump and the Honorable Elon Musk: I have a favor to ask, while y’all are restructuring the federal government. Could you please return the exorbitant taxes I had to pay when I sold my very small farm last year? I knew the tax would be high, but I didn’t expect it to be astronomical, which it was.
See, I had it planned out this way: I would “put back,” as we say on Tupelo Brake, enough to let me live a reasonable life until the time I leave for that big Tupelo Brake in the sky. Then, after taxes, I wanted to help my family members, and I wanted to help some of the people in my community, who work for a living, but are still poor. Appreciation for all they have done for me, just a bit of help here and there, but enough to lighten their load of making a living.
Well, the damned government took care of that right quick. When my very nice young accountant showed me what I owed in taxes, I nearly cried in front of him. Did the feds and state treasuries have to take THAT much?
Why, yes, they did and there was no appeal for this massive steal. So, every quarter, I paid more in tax than I ever had to work with in an entire year.
Somehow, this did not seem right, but it was pay or jail, and I’m too old to suffer in the isolation cell where I surely would have ended up, considering my habit of saying what I think. So I wrote the checks, cursed them with an imprecatory prayer, and mailed them in to the feds and the treasury in Baton Rouge.
Now, our grand president and the also grand Mr. Musk and his Young Genius Boys Brigade have found out where so much of our taxes were going, and I don’t think a red cent of my taxes was doing anything to help this country or we citizens who furnished all the money in the first place.
If I had only known last year that I could get money from USAID, the repository of billions of tax dollars, to conduct some weird experiments on people, animals, plants, etc., I could have made up some really good research projects and maybe kept most of my taxes.
How about a study on alligators and why they swim underwater until they see a dog on the bank, and they suddenly emerge and grab the dog before you can get a stick (or a good rifle) and hit or shoot the varmint. What makes alligators do such dastardly deeds? I figure asking for $250,000 would have been a fair amount to conduct this study, since gators are dangerous and cannot be reasoned with like a chicken.
Or how about this one: why is my yard so full of squirrels every year, even though I never put out feed for them. My hypothesis would be it’s because I have umpteen pecan trees in my yard, in addition to live oaks, pin oaks, water oaks, red oaks and a chestnut oak grown from an acorn picked up at Monticello in 1984. I think it would bear study to see if that availability of food would entice the squirrels to stay here, year round. I would only ask for $150,000 for this study, since it wouldn’t be as dangerous as studying alligators.
Another really important research item would be why do my dogs sleep all day, then bark half the night when I’m trying to sleep. Not a night goes by that the six dogs in my yard are not barking at something. If they are not barking, they are howling, and I mean mournful, pitiful howling. If I could just get a grant to buy cameras and sound equipment and microphones, and a little extra for sleep medicine, I could probably solve this age old question. Because of the cost of equipment, I would probably need another $200,000 for this study, for it would take a lot out of me, having to stay up nights to monitor this situation.
If I could recoup money on these three projects, it still wouldn’t match what I had to pay in taxes to the governments, who were sending my money to somebody somewhere, trying to figure out how to make transgender frogs, or importing criminal invaders, or using the money to buy weapons to kill our allies and us.
It seems only reasonable to me that my tax money should be returned, so I could do good with it here, in Catahoula Parish, one of the poorest parishes in the state of Louisiana. It would help good, decent people who work hard, but can never get ahead because of the loss of jobs, low wages, the high prices caused by biden inflation. But, oh no, money has to go to terrorists, weirdos, and the flotsam and jetsom of society before an American citizen is even considered for help.
I think it is perfectly reasonable to return my tax money, and consider it an investment in America, something USAID has never even considered at all.
It’s only a pittance in the grand scheme of things, and wouldn’t even be missed by the grifters in Washington, D.C., and the rest of the world.
President Trump and Sir Elon, y’all just think about this for me.
If you enjoyed this article, then please REPOST or SHARE with others; encourage them to follow AFNN. If you’d like to become a citizen contributor for AFNN, contact us at managingeditor@afnn.us Help keep us ad-free by donating here.
Substack: American Free News Network Substack
Truth Social: @AFNN_USA
Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/afnnusa
Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/2_-GAzcXmIRjODNh
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AfnnUsa
GETTR: https://gettr.com/user/AFNN_USA
CloutHub: @AFNN_USA