Does anyone else find how ironic the Statue of LIBERTY is the poster child of probably of one of the most oppressive government agencies in the United States? I can understand how they want Americans to equate: Statue of Liberty = Good, thus Income Tax = Good. However, I believe they are slightly confused on what the Statue of Liberty really represents. A stanza is inscribed onto the statue from one of my favorite poems, “The New Colossus,” by the nineteenth-century American poet Emma Lazarus. “The New Colossus,” describes the Statue of Liberty, which appears on a plaque at the base of the statue. It ends with the statue herself speaking:

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these,
the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

However, I am truly convinced that for the bureaucrats to pick something such as the Statue of Liberty, they must have misread the poem. This is one possibility I came up with:

Give me your time, your papers,
Your fully documented yearly earnings unto thee,
Your paychecks, your tips, your interest, your investments. Send these,
Or I will take your liberty, and create misery,
So that I may check these documents… for furhter auditing.