Guest Editorial
By: Barbara McCutchen
January 6, 2019
(Referencing the Fort Smith Marshal’s Museum’s (which was promoted as a “private endeavor”) tax ballot for 1 cent, only for 9 months…soon to be voted on in a “special election”. We shall see.)
So it came to pass that nine months after embryo Penny Tax was conceived the new Baby Penny was not aborted as promised.. but grew and grew.
After all, Baby Penny needed diapers, clothes, food, and transportation, expensive maintenance which had to be met-- and who would be so savagely evil as to deny Penny Tax’s necessities?
So as all baby taxes, she grew fat and happy and her providers more impoverished, but they suffered in order to do their “duty”... after all they gave her life with their vote just as they had done many times before for the growing Tax family.
Some payers have even begun to notice the Tax Family never seems to go away or to be satisfied and have started to rebel verbally, but the ever growing Tax Family has many powerful friends who protect them and their “needs” and never allow them to be diminished by lowly dissenters.
So fear not, Baby Penny Tax will never be harmed and live a loooong smug but happy life.
Amen.
