Tax

This government’s greed’s cut into my need

By taxing tobacco smoke,

I needed my weed to concentrate,

They’ve turned it into a joke.

So how many lines of poetry

I’ll never be able to write,

All for the sake of the Nanny State

Insisting I quit tonight.

I see it as persecution of

The few of us that are left,

Turning us into a cash cow that

Has left us feeling bereft.

I thought that the days of fascists died

In the bunker with Hitler’s crew,

We seem to have re-elected them,

They’re telling us what to do.

We should be allowed to live our lives

The way that we always did,

Making our personal choices then

And not be ruled by the quid.

They keep on edging their taxes up

To make us submit by stealth,

By making it unaffordable,

They say it’s all about health.

What will they do when we all give up

And they find all their coffers bare?

What will they find to tax us then

To make up the smoker’s share?

Maybe they’ll tax the pollies perks

That they vote themselves at night,

Whenever the world’s not watching them,

But that never happens - Right?

We seem to be ruled by a den of thieves

Who make up rules as they go,

Their arrogance you would not believe

As they crush the ordinary Joe.

It’s time that we formed a voting block

To target the safest seats,

And toss out the whole corrupted lot

By dumping them out in the streets.

David Lewis Paget

Reviews

[T.S. Sky]

Yeah government always trying to tell people how to live. i feel ya.

[A Soap Mess Stories]

Good thoughts...I agree with you that we are ruled by a "den of thieves...."

[Coyote Poetry]

I agree my friend.
"We seem to be ruled by a den of thieves
Who make up rules as they go,"
New taxes yearly. Thank you David for sharing your amazing poetry and thoughts.
Coyote

[ROXANE DORSEY]

The Federal Reserve isn't even our US government. Now that's big banking business for thieves. thanks for sharing this poem.

[Tony Jordan]

Hell hath no fury like a poets baccy pouch scorned.
I hear ya David. Never smoked but didnt think it fair to tax the smokes without hitting the liquor just as hard. Not fair at all.
Way to turn a gripe into something funny and positive (and seditious lol)

[David Lewis Paget]

I've rolled my own for years, but now my $22.50 pack of 27g tobacco has just risen to $34.95 overnight. To say I'm pissed would be the understatement of the year.