What I was subjected to when I went to pay my taxes

[yaktamer]

I worked for a government agency where there was a legitimate need for certain employees to be knowledgeable regarding the Brady Act, so they sent around an e-mail with a link to a summary of the legislation. I click the link and it goes to the propaganda page of a particularly rabid gun control organization. I sent a rather pointed message to the person who sent the e-mail inquiring whether it was appropriate to use government resources to endorse a highly partisan political organization. Apparently I wasn't the only one, because about twenty minutes later the apology e-mail goes out agency-wide, with a link to a factual, neutral explanation of the law.

 

[Jessie]

The implication is that this was some sort of official gov't. posted sign?
Call me naive, but I'm not buying that, not in any state. IF it was indeed posted by the window where the OP went to pay taxes - never mind the question who "goes to pay taxes"?- it may have been stuck up there by some nut and nobody'd yet noticed it. I'd have asked the person in charge about it.
Somehow this doesn't pass the smell test. I suspect a forwarded email.

I go into the county admin office every year to pay personal property taxes and dog licenses.
Some of us still do it the old fashion way, especially in small towns.

 

[Absalom]

It was part of a display of students' posters. At a town municipal building.

Not a troll

Aha. So I apologize for the troll suspicion, but I was right the first time. NOT an official poster, children's work. Obviously still not okay, but any of the heavy-handed outrage responses recommended would have looked boorish and been counterproductive.

 

[pittpa]

i have a dream....that one day i wont have to encounter any crazies or "special" people on a daily basis.....

I have a dream, that if I ever need a gun I'll have it with me....
and that welfare recipients will be subjected to drug tests, just like employed people. Just heard on the news that this idea was floated here in PA, where governor is a dem and legislature is repub. ACLU jumped right in that it is unconstitutional. I'm no scholar, but if the Constitution does not mandate entitlements, I wonder what part prohibits putting strings on it.

 

[chaparrito]

I go into the county admin office every year to pay personal property taxes and dog licenses.
Some of us still do it the old fashion way, especially in small towns.

Ah, that makes sense. Haven't lived in a town since the 70's. My county offices are two hours away. I pay through the mail.

 

[chaparrito]

It was part of a display of students' posters. At a town municipal building.

Not a troll

Sounds like it was written by a kid. In that case, should a display of student work be censored due to it's political slant? Personally, I'm not offended by opposing viewpoints. Seems like it's a big part of living in a, you know, free country.

 

[WU_Who]

No such thing as gun violence just violence. What causes it? Inequality. Solve that and I will see ya at the next sing-a-long.

 

[Eagle 477]

Clearly your taxes are not going towards Education.

Rob

 

[bushmaster1313]

Ah, that makes sense. Haven't lived in a town since the 70's. My county offices are two hours away. I pay through the mail.

I pay through the nose

 

[cbore]

Let me see; No prayer in public school
No Christmas scene in public building

Yet an anti gun sign in a Tax office

Something is wrong here. I thing a great test for at ACLU

 

[arjay]

One has to do with the separation of church and state,the other,not so much?

 

[catadjuster]

The implication is that this was some sort of official gov't. posted sign?
Call me naive, but I'm not buying that, not in any state. IF it was indeed posted by the window where the OP went to pay taxes - never mind the question who "goes to pay taxes"?- it may have been stuck up there by some nut and nobody'd yet noticed it. I'd have asked the person in charge about it.
Somehow this doesn't pass the smell test. I suspect a forwarded email.

About half the county where my farm is located go in to the county to pay their property taxes in person. Not at all unusual. We don't have a window though, just a long desk with waiting on one side and county employees on the other side.

 

[chaparrito]

Let me see; No prayer in public school
No Christmas scene in public building

Yet an anti gun sign in a Tax office

Something is wrong here. I thing a great test for at ACLU

It was belatedly described as part of a display of student writing. That information was not disclosed on the OP. Pretty sure I'm not the only one here who assumed it was a solitary poster taped up right at the payment window.
What's wrong here is it was (perhaps inadvertently) made to seem like county government approval of the opinion itself. Maybe that's why so many of us went off half-cocked.

 

[EdnAZ]

If you were paying school taxes, you should probably throw in a couple of extra dollars to get that kid a tutor. Brutal.

By the way, I'm offended for Dr. King.