Giving more

in the early morning on Monday, the 11th of April 2005 by Chad

Most people complain about taxes. Left wingers want to make everyone pay more. Very few put it into practice.

In 2003, the feds received gifts for 19 cents, 42 cents, and 89 cents. They arrived as pennies and other coins taped to letters explaining that the money was found on the street.

Usually, people write in to support a cause.

“They want their money to go to rebuild the Pentagon, or to go to the soldiers,” said Vivian Cooper, director of the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Accounting and Services Division in Washington, D.C. “Unfortunately, we can’t do anything specific.”

The Treasury can’t promise that money will go where requested. Instead, the cash from the fund is tossed into the nearly $2.5 trillion federal budget where it could pay for anything from soybean subsidies to Sen. Ted Kennedy’s salary to secret containment facilities for extraterrestrials.

Now, I can’t argue with making sure Area 51 has the money to keep the force fields up and running, but I thought that this came out of the black budget stuff anyways…