There’s plenty of them kind of cowboys running around in Baptist churches.

A cowboy, who is visiting Wyoming from Texas , walks into a bar and orders three mugs of Coors. He sits in the back of the room, drinking a sip out of each one in turn. When he finishes them, he comes back to the bar and orders three more.

The bartender approaches and tells the cowboy, ‘You know, a mug goes flat after I draw it. It would taste bet ter if you bought one at a time.’

The cowboy replies, ‘Well, you see, I have two brothers. One is in Arizona and the other is in Colorado . When we all left our home in Texas , we promised that we’d drink this way to remember the days when we drank together. So I’m drinking one beer for each of my brothers and one for myself.’

The bartender admits that this is a nice custom, and leaves it there.

The cowboy becomes a regular in the bar, and always drinks the same way. He orders three mugs and drinks them in turn.

One day, he comes in and only orders two mugs. All the regulars take notice and fall silent. When he comes back to the bar for the second round, the bartender says, ‘I don’t want to intrude on your grief, but I wanted to offer my condolences on your loss.’

The cowboy looks quite puzzled for a moment, then a light dawns in his eyes and he laughs.

‘Oh, no, everybody’s just fine,’ he explains, ‘It’s just that my wife and I joined the Baptist Church and I had to quit drinking.’

‘Hasn’t affected my brothers though.’

Stand by friend, with the out of control spending, we’re all going to be behind on our taxes. My grand son now owes taxes and he’s only 5.

But that doesn’t matter, the most important thing is he can’t buy beer on Sunday.

I don’t care much about what Johnson is proposing or even what he has said. I know that it is against the law not to file. So, if a state elected offical knows that too-then what’s so bad about making it an automatic ethical violation to not file? Maybe Johnson’s got it right for the wrong reasons.

Why don’t you bother to read the tax laws instead of just repeating talking point rhetoric?

Yes, everybody, including senators and representatives should pay their taxes. But, Eric Johnson’s rhetoric is BS. I’ll spell out BS if you don’t know what I’m saying.

However, no one would put up with a Governor that didn’t pay his taxes for any reason. Sens. & Reps. should be held to a high standard as well.

A law could be made that requires all of the above in state office to legally file a tax return. If payment is complicated for some good reason, then at least the law has been complied with about filing a return.

If a complaint comes up & they have not filed-then it should be grounds for stiff fines and sanctions.

It seems to me that none of the above ought to be able to get off by saying that it just simply slipped their mind to file a tax return.

QFT.

I do think the Legislator’s circumstances should be considered. Sen. Brown was apparently sick for some time and rightly or wrongly he says that’s the reason and that he applied for extensions. If the DoR has given him extensions then what’s the problem?

All I’ve been saying is let’s examine each Legislator’s situation before we throw them all out.

Who has or has not should not be a factor. “Why or why not” not “who has or has not” should be a factor.

That’s not acting both ways.

I think it should be an ethics violation.

BTW, what would you do with these folks? I’ve already said what I think. All you’ve done is attack. As Bill Clinton said, “an attack never fed a hungry child.”

If I were concerned about making this a partisan issue I would have jumped all over Sen. Brown and the three other Dems. who are having their wages garnished. I didn’t do that did I?

Can’t you set aside your partisan colored glasses for just a minute and look at the issue involved?

What does that have to do with anything? I guess if the list is overwhelmingly more Democratic than Republican then it’d be a good thing to come down on them and if it’s mostly Republicans you know personally or like then it’s an issue that should be swept aside?

It seems you’re more concerned about who might be on the list than the actual problem at hand.