Elton Camp Poet Rhyme

There's Little Doubt of the Outcome

There’s Little Doubt of the Outcome

By Elton Camp

When fighting one more powerful than you
To succeed there is practically nothing to do
Very soon you’ll be lying flat of your face
Beaten, bruised and in complete disgrace

And that’s the way it is with our Uncle Sam
When his rules & regulations he wants to ram
An agency that delights to tell us what to do
Is called the Department of Internal Revenue

With what it says, we are required to comply
Resistance is futile, so there’s no need to try
On your return you make some innocent mistake
Then they can threaten a complete audit to take

They seem to think we should so plainly see
The need for Schedules they call X, Y and Z
If it’s possible to put things in a complex way
Then that exactly what the IRS is going to say

Unless we pay our income tax before it is due
Next year, every quarter it will come from you
“We see that of taxes you didn’t pay enough.
That your income increased is just too tough.”

Most citizens don’t mind paying their share
But it would be easier with tax laws more fair
That fat cats who are rolling in so much dough
May get by with little, makes us feel it isn’t so

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