Speaking of the US Congress, a Reuters article from today’s wire…

Get elected to Congress and get rich: study

Thu Mar 13, 2008 5:04pm EDT By Kevin Drawbaugh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The personal wealth of members of the U.S. Congress has soared in recent years, leaving lawmakers on average far more well-to-do than most Americans as of 2006, [...]

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I am grateful that I live in America where I can complain without recrimination about paying money to the government in taxes .
I am also grateful that the government to which I pay those taxes protects me from crime, foriegn invasions, charlatans of all kinds and - at times - from myself.
The taxing business of paying [...]

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