Freedom To Be Ignorant

My Money or My Life

In one of Jack Benny’s enduring jokes, he was accosted by a highwayman who demanded, “Stand and deliver. Your money or your life.”

After a pause, the highwayman repeated: “I said, your money or your life!” To which Benny responded: “I’m THINKING.”

Lots of ordinary Republicans hate government in any form, as much as Benny pretended to hate spending money. Republicans like spending money. Just not on taxes.

                                                     

So they complain: “The government thinks it knows how to spend my money better than I do.”

That “my money” comment always puzzles me.

    I'm puzzled about how to spend "my" money without paying taxes. Doesn’t the government print and mint that money? No taxes, no government. No government, no money.

     The Republicans that I know like to play the slot machines at the casino, and they like to buy guns. Could they raise enough chickens and potatoes in their back yards to do that? First, though, they’d have to trade some chickens to get someone to teach them how to read the directions at the casino and the gun show..  

    Oops again. They’d need some potatoes to pay for riding the private toll road to get to the casino. Takes lots of potato digging.

    Darned government, anyway. It just interferes with our freedom to be as ignorant as we choose to be.