"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." - Leonardo da Vinci
It's bad enough that Uncle Sam thrusts his hands into our pockets each
payday; funding federal functions is never pretty. But it's truly ugly to
watch Uncle Sam keep his sticky fingers on our hard-won earnings long
after specific taxes have outlived their express purposes.