Just The Way It Is

It's gone largely unnoticed that President Bush has been saying lately that rich people will always cheat on their taxes. (He's stopped just short of adding, "and there's nothing we can do about it.") Here are his exact words, courtesy of the White House press office:

Be careful of these folks who travel around the country making all these big promises, and say, oh, don't worry, we'll pay for it by taxing the rich. You know how that goes. The rich hires (sic) accountants and lawyers and you get stuck with the bill. But we're not going to let him raise your taxes. For the sake of economic growth, for the sake of job creation, we will keep America's taxes low.

Darn straight, Mr. President. Taking on those lawyers and accountants is so hard, we might as well just let the rich do whatever they want. It's not like there's some kind of, I don't know, internal revenue service or something that could actually go after people who steal. That might take time and government money, which is in mighty short supply what with all these millionaires ripping the rest of us off.

So stay the course, Mr. President. If something's hard, it's best to just let it go -- just like you did with Osama bin Laden.