Every April Fool’s Day, we expect those involved in unnecessary, fraudulent cash flows to say “April Fool! Now, we’re giving you all your money back.”
Our naive thoughts lead toward thinking that the Post Office will refund a quarter for every letter we’ve sent, approximating what we’d have paid if mail delivery was privatized.
We think our local school board will return three fourths of all the property tax we’ve ever paid because that’s amount they intentionally, and unnecessarily, took from us to put into their employees’ pockets.
We expect the EPA to admit that they’ve been making up all kinds of alarmist frauds and that they’ll send us a check for all the goods and services we’ve had to pay too much for.
Innocents that we are, on April first, we expect refunds on gasoline tax for all the roads that weren’t fixed, and for all the money wasted on unnecessary roads. We even think they’ll be sending us a check for all the damage done to our vehicles by bad roads.
On April first, we think someone will send back all the illegal immigrants.
But, every April Fool’s day that comes and goes only sees more practical jokes played against our bank accounts.
It’s likely that, on this earth, we’ll never be made whole from what the merry pranksters have cost us, but that’s what Judgment Day is for.
