Sense Sonnet - Chiller

Grim Taxing Tale

Once upon a time, I.R.S.,
The gov did render obsolete,
A flat ten percent assess
On We the People - bills to meet.
Nothing to exempt or deduct,
No incentives to evade tax,
No bucking fairly being bucked,
No more complex games to the max.
But the tale We live in won't end
As a children's fairy tale should.
Govvies talk good, but just pretend.
Gov prefers tax bad to tax good.

We get shafted by gov shafter,
To live helpless ever after.