Classic TV: The Honeymooners & Tax Cheats

The funny Honeymooners clip below came to mind when I heard the day’s headliners. Honestly, I can’t believe all the BS I am hearing from so called intelligent and professional people, and their stupid “mistakes” on income tax returns. In this clip, you have two slobs (affectionately) worrying about a letter Ralph gets from the IRS. He goes into panic mode and hopes he didn’t forget to report the following (too funny, the little details we regular folk worry about):

1. A skinny Chicken
2. Interest from his sad savings account
3. Polka winnings
4. And lastly the horse with a clock in its stomach.

Well, if you are like me, we can identify with this. Here we are working, and middle class families terrified of the IRS. If we play the game these politicians have been playing lately, we’d be in jail! And the funny part is that we’d go to jail, or fined for as little as $1000. Both Thomas Daschle and Timothy Geithner get a “get out of jail” card, pat on the back, and a sweet gig to boot.

How can these men say this with a straight face? “I am deeply embarrassed and disappointed by the errors that required me to amend my tax returns,” Tom Daschle wrote to Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa). “I apologize for the errors and profoundly regret that you have had to devote time to them.” This from a man who made a $146,000 mistake on his taxes! This from a man who once said, “Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.” Huh? The zenith in hypocrisy!

And to add insult to injury the Secretary of our Treasury Department, Timothy Geithner is another tax cheat, he did not pay Social Security and Medicare taxes for four years for some contracting job with the International Monetary Fund totaling to some $30,000. I watched some of the hearings and I just couldn’t believe how smug he looked as he explained his so called, stupidity and how it was Turbo Taxes’ fault! You try doing that citizen, and see if the IRS will eat this BS.

As for me, I will try do as Ralph in the clip does, stay “calm and cool,” and if ever I get audited by the IRS I will say as Ralph said to the IRS agent, “just like you to understand, that Ralph Kramden will never be accused of not putting a horse down with a clock in its stomach!” Integrity in Washington is dead, I am afraid.

4 Responses to “Classic TV: The Honeymooners & Tax Cheats”

1. Robby Cress says:

   February 7, 2009 at 3:45 am

   Great video!
2. Robby Cress says:

   February 7, 2009 at 3:45 am

   Great video!
3. Bacall says:

   February 7, 2009 at 5:43 am

   Thanks Robby! I Love the Honeymooners especially when they know better than the tax cheats in Washington. I was wondering what happened to you. I used to visit your old blog, but didn’t see any new posts and wondered what happened. I just changed the link on my blog roll. Thanks for stopping by.
4. Tom says:

   May 4, 2009 at 2:23 am

   This piece is right on Bacall! And what a fabulous clip!