Happy Tax Day

I find it curious that some people get so excited over a tax refund. (Perhaps I am sour because I owed Uncle Sam money this year.) Some people run around like they won the lottery when they find that they are getting a refund.

Think about it this way. It is your money to begin with. The government confiscated it before your employer even paid you, unless you are self-employed. The government has been using for over a year buying stuff like pens, staplers, tanks; paying bureaucrats, soldiers, congressmen; providing health care services like immunizations; giving out food stamps; and so on. Now after you notify them that they took too much of your money to begin with, they will send you a check. If you did not bother to tell them that they seized too much of your money, they would not give it back.

Make no mistake, the government is not giving you their money. It is giving back the money it confiscated from you. It is your money, not the government's. The government has no money of its own, as it does not produce anything. The only money the government get is what it seizes from its citizens.

Happy Tax Day. I hope you get a whole bunch of your money back from the government.