Hi. My name is the Lion. I don’t watch your show all that much (because I don’t have cable and, when I did, chose to watch something a little more rooted in reality) but I recently caught some video of you at CPAC.

At first, you seemed pretty reasonable. I did not agree with you, but I could follow your arguments and saw how your logic formed. But then…oh, but then. You began discussing how you learned about the evils of progressivism and how taxpayers should not be paying for things that the people need and want. You stated:

“I taught myself. I went to the library. Books are free.”

Glen, no. Just…no.

Libraries are not free. Books are not free. They are city, state, and federally owned and paid for so that every American has free (got that? FREE) access to books. You, yourself used this little bit of socialism growing up. I bet you went to public school too, didn’t you?

See, Glen, these things like schools and libraries, and firemen, and the military – they are expensive. And our government has no way to generate revenue other than to tax. I know you are a little confused because you think that the “progressives” that came into office after WWI were the first to put in place an income tax.

But you would be wrong. That would be Lincoln who put it in place to pay for the Civil War. A Republican. Why don’t you head back down to your local library and pick up another book, ok?