It was Day 8 and God was not pleased. His Eden Project was going badly. The First Couple had raided his apple tree and there was none left for the rest of the garden inhabitants; man had discovered wine and was running drunken orgies.
It began to look like mankind would overpopulate Eden and leave no room for its more innocent creations. What was God to do? The angels were no help at all in coming up with a plan.
But then...
God had a sudden brainstorm. He would create TAXES! And it was so....
Things came to a screeching halt in Eden. There was little cash left over for things like wine and sex orgies. Adam was forced to pay up back taxes.
The tax idea was an instant hit with world leaders who had been searching for a better way to fund wars and personal wealth.
Equally enthralled were the evangelists, who saw taxes as a means to put an end to fun everywhere.
And, so, the great tradition of The Tax continues to this day. Along the way, the idea caught up with a few other events that share the great April 15 date. Among these:
The death of President Abraham Lincoln, April 15, 1865.
The sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 1912.
The first tax-due-date was the middle of March but Congress probably thought that was too much like the ides of March, so moved it. Congresspeople are not real students of history or they would have known the dark days of earlier April 15ths.
But not all was over. On the Ninth Day, God again was displeased. His creation, Eden, had been looted by Man. And now, his other creation, Congress, otherwise known as The Garden of Evil, was being perverted, too.
Here was his creation, TAXES, being used in Congress as we all know only Congress can.
