It's that time of year

For ding bat, rich "progressives" to come out and claim that they don't pay enough tax.

Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength--rich guys in favor of raising taxes on themselves and other wealthy people--say they are irritated over President Obama's failure to do just that.

Nor do they believe his latest announcement that he intends to try again, says Erica Payne, founder of the Agenda project and coordinator of the Patriotic Millionaires campaign.

The president, when a candidate in 2008, had recommended ending the Bush tax cuts for households earning over $250,000 a year. But he conceded that point when he signed into law in 2010 an agreement with Republicans to extend the Bush tax cuts two more years.

It's that concession that has disappointed and rankled Patriotic Millionaires, curdling their feelings. "The administration cut the deal they felt they needed to cut," shrugs Payne. "But we disagreed wholeheartedly. The president's quick and easy capitulation on an issue with such solid moral elements was disheartening."

These people make me sick. Like most liberals, they have no problem being "generous". But only when their neighbor makes the same sacrifice.

I see this all the time with school levies. Proponents are always quick to judge the generosity of those who reject school levies yet do you think any of them contributes money to the school outside of taxes. The amount of money these people kick in to schools outside of taxes wouldn't make my pant pocket bulge.

And it's the same with income taxes. In Massachusetts, taxpayer's have the option to pay a higher, older tax rates than the newer, lower rates. How's that working out?

Moonbats are cheap. And they prove it again every year at this time when the Commonwealth of Massachusetts gives them the chance to personally raise their own income taxes.

Your average liberal would give an illegal alien the shirt off your back. Not his back, but your back. Just ask them. They sit in Starbucks and angrily blog about how AmeriKKKans who work don’t pay their “fair share.”

They harrumph, what about the children?

But you know what they say. Money talks, you-know-what walks.

So far this tax season, the state Department of Revenue has received 1,971,000 returns.

And of those 1.971 million filers, exactly 862 have checked the box to pay at the old, higher 5.85 percent rate rather than the current 5.3 percent rate.

Or how about Virginia's "pay more tax" surtax which has been in effect since 2002. How much has that generated?

Virginia coffers hold $1,500 of taxpayer generosity this year.

As disputes rage in Richmond over proposed fees to balance the troubled state budget, some citizens want to send even more than they have to into a fund that collects voluntary giving to the state.

But not many.

Contributions to the “Tax Me More Fund” have hovered between $1,000 and $1,700 most years ever since lawmakers created it in 2002, according to the Virginia Department of Taxation. Exceptions include the fund’s first year, when taxpayers contributed $6,602, and a low point in 2006 when $19.36 was donated.

Republican Del. M. Kirkland Cox, of Colonial Heights, first proposed the fund to make a point about raising taxes on others without being willing to pay more themselves. If he intended to test the generosity of legislators, he seems to have made his point.

Only two state legislators are among the five donors who have allowed their names to be made public. Del. Rob Bell, R-Charlottesville, and former state Sen. D. Nick Rerras contributed to the fund, although how much they gave is not public.

Since its inception, the fund has collected $12,887.04, with the largest single donation being $5,000. Except for 2003, no more than two donations have been made to the fund each year.

My question is why hasn't a media member asked one of these dolts why they don't give their "excessive" wealth to a worthwhile charity or the government themselves. For crying out loud, if it's "all about the children" they can simply walk to a local elementary school and ask a principal who to make the check out to and it's done. The don't need me to pay more tax to handle that.

In my business, the clients who have a profound hatred of paying taxes are bipartisan. But I will always remember a client who ranted about how George Bush was killing the environment. When I asked him if he wated to donate any part of his state refund to the Ohio Endangered Wildlife fund or the Ohio Natural Areas fund, he looked at me like I was Linda Blair in The Exorcist.

For "progressives" you'd think the hypocrisy would be shameful, but they seem to wear it with pride.