Denver Country Clubbers: Working People Are SO Silly!

From the Rocky Mountain News . . .

April 15 has top-tier taxpayers singing the country club blues

Denver's well-heeled can lament IRS haul at city's posh haunt

By David Milstead, Rocky Mountain News
April 15, 2004

This evening, the deadline for filing taxes, some of Denver's wealthiest residents will celebrate by gathering at the Denver Country Club and singing songs about how poor they are now that they've paid the Internal Revenue Service.

The club is calling it the "Hard Times Tax Relief Party," where members are promised they can "Forget your IRS woes by spending a fun evening at the Denver Country Club."

For $13.95, according to a flier on the bulletin board of the Country Club, members will get a dinner featuring "chipped beef on dry toast" and will be entertained by "a singalong of favorites."

Samples of the songs, with the Denver Country Club's commentary on why they were chosen: Fly Me To The Moon, (because "I can't afford it on Earth anymore") and Beer Barrel Polka (because "We can't afford anything else.")

Fashion for the evening, the flier says, is "Oscar de la Goodwill" or "Salvation Army Fifth Avenue" with "prizes given for the most fashionable couture."