Pay for What You Want

Set up early warning systems for every imaginable disaster. Cut taxes. Pull us out of the mudslides and the raging waters. Cut taxes. Help me rebuild in the same insanely dangerous location. Cut taxes. Get that boulder off the road. Repair those potholes by tomorrow. Cut taxes. Save my house. Save my car. Save my baby. Cut taxes. Maintain a world-class kindergarten-through-college education system. Cut taxes.

We ought to be ashamed of ourselves.

Donald Kerns

(latimes.com, January 18, 2005)