'Dear IRS'

As we've seen Tea Parties break out across the country, maybe to help supplement the public outrage we should also have citizens send 'Dear IRS' letters like the one above (click image to enlarge).

One Texas man makes his point with a letter to the IRS, but I doubt they'll be too understanding.

A Texas retiree has become a cause celebre for a satirical letter he wrote his hometown paper, saying he can't pay his taxes - and asking the IRS to treat him like famous tax cheats.

"Dear IRS," Ed Barnett wrote the Wichita Falls (Texas) Times Record News in February. "I am sorry to inform you that I will not be able to pay taxes owed April 15, but all is not lost."

Barnett, 67, listed 37 other taxes he's paid, including an obscure waterfowl stamp tax. And he asked the feds to forgive him, as they did such famous tax evaders as US Reps. Charles Rangel and Barney Frank, Sen. Chris Dodd, ex-Sen. Tom Daschle and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner.

Speaking of corrupt Democrats, the campaign contribution woes continue for New York's Anthony Weiner, a story we first noted here last week. Hey, I'm all for hanging with supermodels, but make sure their contributions are legal, OK?