Thoreau, taxes, and the moral stand that's hard to take...

Finally Friday. And my weekend plans? Laundry, groceries, other assorted house chores, doing the taxes. 

Yeah, fun. 

The way things are right now, I am morally repelled by submitting my taxes to what appears to be a never-ending sinkhole of depravity. It's hard to wrap my brain around it. 

I'm no Thoreau, though. 

And even dear ol' Henry David's moral stand was thwarted by well-intentioned people. It's hard to make a protest out of not paying taxes. The only person who notices is yourself, and then, likely, the government, and they have a lot of ways of enforcing the paying. 

That all said, my discretionary income can and will go towards countering the repugnancy. If I'm a living zero-sum, so be it. No one goes hungry on my watch. I will educate kids, even under a damned tree like Socrates (but we all know that didn't end well). 

But it's Friday. And I'm still feeling less than awesome, so, I will try to schedule some rest time this weekend as well. I have a stack of papers to read and grade, too, so we'll see how it all goes. 

Take care of yourselves and your loved ones. 

C