Whether you were paying taxes this past Wednesday, or were lucky enough to rate a refund, its been hard not to see anything but red this past week.

The Declaration of Independence has a phrase that is an indictment of King George. Pretend you don’t know who it’s referring to. The US “Declaration of Independence” declares that its people should not have to deal with meddlesome agencies that “harass our people and eat out their substance.”

Big-time billion-dollar bail-outs, trillion-dollar infusions and incentives, quadrillion-dollar deficits . . . all these plots and plans offer some down-the-road pots-and-pans help. But they also constantly remind us of how sickly and emaciated our economy is right now. The flow of red ink is causing businesses that have been going strong for generations…