April 15th is the time of the year when American citizens can communicate with their government. I cannot testify for anyone else, but I look forward to this marvelous opportunity, and I am careful not to waste it. This year, for example, so much has happened since last year it took 15 single spaced typed pages to include everything.

 However, to be perfectly honest (and who's perfect), I am a little disappointed. All the years I have included a personal letter including a SASE with my tax returns, I have yet to get a personal letter in return. I am beginning to think this is a one‑way relationship and it would not take much for me to quit this correspondence entirely. Then what would my government think? How would they know what I've been up to all year long?

I am not one to complain (unless my wife is not around), but filling out my income tax return seems to be getting more complicated each year. When I familiarize myself with the rules for one year, someone changes them the next year. What could not be deducted last year can be this year; and what was deductible last year I must pay twice. Why can't someone in the government make up my mind and quit all this unnecessary fluctuation?

On April 16, each year, our government immediately destroys the tax rulebooks to keep them from falling into the hands of a foreign power. By "foreign," I mean Canada.

Heaven help us if our neighbor north of the border ever got their hands on this information. Canadians are not usually known for their jollity, but once they see these books, the entire country would break out into uncontrollable laughter. Who knows what this would do to the delicate relationship now existing between the two countries.

Because of this important precaution, they need new tax law books each year.

Right after the Christmas & New Year's parties, someone in the Internal Revenue office asks his assistant to "bring me those tax books." When they inform him that there are no books this same person (which shall remain nameless for obvious reason) says to his assistant, "Bob, write me a new tax law book for this year and have it on my desk by 5:00."

This sets the wheels of government to whirling and by golly, by 5:00, that new tax law book is on the desk. This is one reason the tax laws from one year are so different from the next. Then the assistant responsible for this is fired and a new one hired. The only requirement for the assistant is that his name must be "Bob."

I wish one year Bob would call me. It seems he has overlooked many legitimate deductions every year. I would like to submit some recommendations for consideration.