Come on you've probably seen or heard it:

"I helped murder families in Colombia."

"I helped kidnap peoples' dads."

"I helped blow up a building."

An analysis of American foreign policy? No.

Insights into the effects of US support for authoritarian regimes? Nope. A critique on US-funding for gorilla forces? Wrong again.

But, could it be children excusing themselves for providing the funds for such actions? Of course! What else could it be?

But if the moral vanguards of our society really don't want us to sponsor drug kingpins, terrorists, warlords, rogue states, well, let's just stop paying our taxes till "our" government puts its money where its mouth is.

Oh, but then that is, in fact, exactly what they do.

The truth is, however, I don't have anything against paying taxes. Hell, I would even support more taxation. Provided, of course, the funds are used for just needs: health care, housing, food subsidies, child support, etc. and not "their" just needs: war, expansion of the military industrial complex, subsidies to the wealthy, funding anti-democratic regimes, ad nauseam.

The wealthy, accompanied by their newspapers anguish over how much taxes their families and businesses have to pay and just how much it's hurting them. If only we'd come to reason and see that less taxation for them will mean more money for us all... Good grief!

I got a better solution! Let's agree to a less burdensome taxation for the wealthy and increased taxation for the less-than-wealthy, but on a more equal basis. The capitalists will have to share some of their wealth by raising wages for workers dramatically (how about equal to that CEOs received since 1980: a 1,884% increase?). In exchange for their return to a more noble position in society, we too will burden ourselves with a fair portion of taxes.

Reality check!

Figures issued by the Labor Department for January through March of this year show that labor productivity rose by 5.5% and output rose by 6.5% as compared to the previous quarter. NPR was quite succinct in spelling this out: workers were fired, paid less, and made to work longer: i.e., we were more heavily exploited. Or, as reported in the paper of record, The New York Times: "Companies managed to squeeze every last ounce of production out of their workers....''

I love it when the press doesn't lie.