Once upon a time there was this tax collector who believed in fairness so much, everyone called him Goldilocks. Goldilocks would skip through the forest, looking for tax revenues.

Deep in the forest was this lovely house and in it lived the Rich Taxpayer, the Middle Class Taxpayer and Little Poor Taxpayer. They were not home when Goldilocks, spotting the fine house from afar, came to the door. Since the house was empty, Goldilocks let himself in.

"I know what! I will fix everything here so everyone can live happily ever after!" thought Goldilocks. So he went into the kitchen and cooked breakfast for the three taxpayers. And this is what he did:

He served the Rich Taxpayer a big bowl of tax cuts.

He served the Middle Class Taxpayer a middle-sized bowl of tax cuts.

He took the little bowl of the Poor Taxpayer and ate up all the tax cuts and left him a bill for the meal.

He sat on the Rich Taxpayer's chair and said, "This chair is too hard," and so he put a tax shelter on the chair and made it more comfortable.

He sat on the Middle Class Taxpayer's chair and said, "This chair is too soft, let's increase Social Security payments and offset it with bigger child education."

He sat on the Poor Taxpayer's chair and it broke. He said, "Tough luck, pull yourself up by your own bootstraps."

Yawning, he decided to go to bed. The Little Poor Taxpayer came home and found his wife in bed with Goldilocks. "How dare you!" Little Poor Taxpayer sputtered.