Withholding Tax
Channel: Sam A. Robrin
Date: 23/09/2012

Feel free to sing this whenever and wherever appropriate, until we've created a movement!

WITHHOLDING TAX    

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When I'm unhappy shopping at a local store,
I tell them they won't get my money anymore.
My friends do, too, and when the loss gets too expensive,
The store adjusts the policy we found offensive.

     A hundred times a year, I hear of some new law.
     I fume and fuss, declaring, "That's the last damn straw!
     "I'll take my business somewhere else," I start to say,
     But government still gets my money anyway.

 They're unrelenting in their revenue collection,
      Financing their corruption dancing on our backs.
 So many hidden charges, they escape detection,
       Along with the overt ones, like withholding tax.
  Withholding tax!  Withholding tax!
         They have us by the you-know-where with the withholding tax!

They've smarmily convinced you that you have a voice—
Every several years, you get to make a choice
In how the money's spent, and what the leaders do:
You pick the lesser evil from a slate of two.

     Pretending that they're acting at the citizens' command,
     They've written laws we normal folk can't understand,
     Interpreting them as they like, to help conceal
     The ways they bully, chisel, swindle, lie, cheat, and steal. 

      It's not enough to vote or write in to the editor—
           To really give these greedy, wasteful crooks the ax,
      And say "Go fly a kite" to our persistent creditor,
           It's time to change the meaning of "withholding tax."
       Withholding tax!  Withholding tax!
              They're not the only ones to get by with withholding tax!

          Seen case-by-case, the problem may appear to be insurmountable,
               Their power's Brobdingnagian, and their influence unnerving.
          From now on, each government worker must be made to be held accountable—
               To truth, to you, to the public, and to the laws they say they're serving.
              It's time to make them realize just who they're working for.
              We're mad as hell, and we won't take—or give!—any more!

We throw the rascals out, but just get new rascals in.
To change, the system needs to take a bop to the chin.
Every other effort's exhausted, except
A good, well-aimed kick in the place their wallets are kept.

     It means coordinating our efforts with others,
     And often acting as the keepers of our brothers.
     Stand up by the hundreds, they can't jail us all!
     Together, we can make Leviathan fall!

      It's going to require all the strength you have within you,
           But once committed, don't relent, no, or relax.
      It's hard, but not as hard as letting it continue.
           We can change the crooked system by withholding tax.
       Withholding tax!  Withholding tax!  
                     Until they clean up their corruption, we're withholding tax!