Best Line of the Day Americans pay taxes “because some of our country’s good-for-nothing bums are too chicken to rob us at gunpoint.”

As April 15 rolls around let us take a moment to recall why we Americans pay taxes: Because some of our country’s good-for-nothing bums are too chicken to rob us at gunpoint. That would be members of Congress and the executive branch. How come we keep electing politicians who will tax the bejeezus out of us? Especially Democrats? At least Republicans are smart enough to lie about it.

Read the rest in “A Nation of Moochers” by P.J. O’Rourke in the Weekly Standard.