All My Sweet Bourgeois Money Makes Me Depressed :(

You know what would make me depressed? If I were a Governor’s aide that made over $100k a year and an Ivy League graduate and I had to pay my taxes. Taxes are such a jip and you just know that when the commu-crats come to power, it will go to those unwashed masses that don’t deserve organic produce and health care:

Gov. David A. Paterson’s top aide, who failed to pay income taxes or file returns from 2001 to 2005, was afflicted by “late-filing syndrome,” a condition that made it difficult for him to fill out his tax returns, his lawyer said on Wednesday.

The lawyer, Richard S. Kestenbaum, said that he believed that the aide, Charles J. O’Byrne, despite an annual income of about $100,000 and an Ivy League education, could not bring himself to undertake the task of filling out his tax forms every year. Mr. O’Byrne and his doctor have described him as clinically depressed during that period.

You read that right — O’Byrne was so distraught by the very idea of having his massive income taxed that he couldn’t bring himself to do it! I also suffer from ‘late-filing syndrome’, also known as ‘I wish I made $100k so I could hire a lawyer to avoid paying my income taxes.’

[Via the NYTimes]

See Also: Is It Contagious?, Culture of Corruption: Charles O’Byrne, Paterson’s Office Speaks, “Late filing syndrome”, The Symptoms of ‘Failure to File Syndrome’, Taxes Make Me Ill: Paterson Aide Invokes Late Filing Syndrome, and I-DON’T-WANNA-PAY-TAXES SYNDROME.

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