Ya got that right.....unfortunately

The Income Tax is the greatest single evil ever inflicted on the American public. It led to our unnecessary participation in World War I. It has stifled economic progress and fed the leviathan which continues to devour us. It needs to be repealed and have a stake driven through its heart, like the blood sucking vampire it is.

No, the taxman does NOT take it all. America is the most undertaxed industrialized nation. The income tax has AIDED economic progress, and "the greatest single evil ever inflicted on the American public" was slavery. Also well ahead of the income tax on that list was the ruination of the Native Americans, segregation, the massacres of labor demonstrators, the Vietnam and Iraq wars, the blockage of health care reform, and letting nearly 2,000 people drown in Hurricane Katrina. All of them conservative ideas.

great job I just hope it wasn't too emotionally taxing on you to write this! 5's

...and you're working for no one but me...

In a lot of places (such as California and New Jersey, to give just two examples), the taxman steals more than HALF of everyone's income once you factor in the state and local taxes; not counting inflation, which is a "stealth" tax on the remainder. The only thing that keeps America from being the worst in this regard is Europe. The "greatest single evil ever inflicted on the American public" is baby butchery, which has tortured to death more than 50,000,000 innocents so far in America alone. Also on the list of evils is the Old South's chattel slavery, the internment of American citizens in concentration camps, segregation, crony corporatism, wage slavery and a well-nigh elephantine welfare state begun in President Johnson's time, the Vietnam and Libyan "policing actions" (they were never actually declared as wars), the theft and destruction and of everyone's healthcare through an unwanted "reform" illegally slipped through Congress through lies and bribes and corruption and extortion, the neglect and abandonment of hundreds of buses that were quite available and badly needed for evacuating thousands who were in Hurricane Katrina's path through massive corruption and sheer incompetence, and the lynching and race riots that have claimed thousands of lives of (especially) various racial minorities over the years. All of this treasonous genocidal activity has been brought to you by the party of the Black Panthers and the KKK: a.k.a. the "Democrats" who are more properly known as Hell-bound fat-cat commie goose-stepper parasites.

The taxman takes nothing from you. You never had it. You pay zero tax. "Gross income" is a charade and a fiction. You say you earn $100K? No you don't. You earn your net pay of approximately $50K. It is net income for which we compete in the labor market. Capitalists have determined what is enough take-home pay for the middle-class wage slave to barely live on.

The real value of the slave's labor is about $300K. From this amount the corporate barons pay (in your name) $50K to the government to prosecute the wars which are required to protect their "vital interests." Your W-2 should read:
1. Value of labor -- $300K
2. Gross income (delete this line) -- $100K
3. Net income (what the slave takes home) -- $50K
4. Withholding tax (protection money paid, in the slave's name, to the government) -- $50K
5. Add lines 3 and 4
6. Subtract line 5 from line 1. This is the portion of the sweat of your brow that pays for C.E.O. bonuses, gold bathroom fixtures, etc. -- $200K

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So back to the parody... this is a lovely work. A substitute line did pop into my head when I was reading it: instead of "I went and lost my way" I thought of "I cashed my IRA". Anyway, enjoyed this and hope to hear it performed someday!

Without an income tax the government could not have fought the Vietnam or Iraq/Afghanistan wars. Chattel slavery was inflicted upon a minority. The Income Tax affects everyone. The treatment of the American Indians is the example of how the government would like to reduce everyone to a state of dependence and despondency. I don't recall conservatives blocking anyone from leaving New Orleans as the hurricane approached. The school board had hundreds of buses that could have transported thousands of people. They let them sit until they were consumed by the flood. Evil is with us. But government evil could not be funded without taxation.

It takes a Kansan to write the ridiculous "...the government would like to reduce everyone to a state of dependence and despondency."
The good that government does also could not be funded without taxation. It's easy to talk about the horrific treatment of Native Americans in settling the West. But the government (i.e., We, the People) also sold public land to settlers for low prices and sometimes even gave it away. The railroads, which spurred so much growth in the West, would not have been built without massive subsidies from the federal government. And today, much of the farming in many Western areas is made possible by federal water projects, substantial parts of the ranching are subsidized by the artificially low grazing fees on federal property, and much of the mining is made more profitable by dirt cheap access to federal land. Cities like Los Angeles and Las Vegas would dry up and blow away without the federally funded dam and canal projects that provide water to those arid regions. So it is ironic that while anti-big government sentiment is very strong in parts of this region, the West literally would not and could not exist as it does today without the sustained help of the federal government.

Hey guys, I do appreciate the comments but what you don't know, until now, is that I'm a Brit!...and at the end of the day, it is only a parody and not a political statement.