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January 30, 2002
I'm not Googlewhacking
Went looking for a picture of an angry beaver today, so I fed Google "vicious rampaging beaver." I got no pictures, poor hits, and one fanfic. Don't ask me what the fanfic was about.
So I toned it down to "aggressive beaver." I got this:
(Washington, D.C.) -- The IRS is busy as a beaver collecting your taxes, but U.S. Congressman John Shadegg (AZ-04) has an interesting solution to alleviate the IRS backlog.During yesterday's floor debate in the House of Representatives regarding Shadegg's Tax Limitation Amendment, H.J. Res. 37, Shadegg drew a connection between the appetite of the Internal Revenue Service bureaucrats and a few other fur-bearing creatures in Washington who have been destroying cherry trees:
"I was reading a statistic earlier today that went to the heart of this debate. It pointed out that the IRS sends out 8 billion pages of forms and instructions each year -- the equivalent of paper made from almost 300,000 trees..."
"I could not help but be struck by the fact that vis-a-vis the IRS, the beavers at the Tidal Basin who, during the last few weeks chewed down...three or four trees before they were caught, are pikers compared to the IRS! In one year the IRS -- not one little aggressive beaver -- but the IRS with its 8 billion pages of forms and instructions consumes almost 300,000 trees."
"Maybe the IRS should employ those beavers."
Posted by KinCross at January 30, 2002 12:25 PM