A man has spent many days crossing the desert without water.
His camel dies of thirst. He’s crawling through the sands, certain that he has
breathed his last, when all of a sudden he sees an object sticking
out of the sand several yards ahead of him. He crawls to the object,
pulls it out of the sand, and discovers what looks to be an old brief
case. He opens it and out pops a genie. But this is no ordinary genie. He
is wearing an IRS ID badge and a dull gray suit. There’s a calculator in
his pocket. He has a pencil tucked behind one ear.”Well,
kid,” says the genie. “You know how it works. You have three wishes
“I’m not falling for this.” Says the man. “I’m not
going to trust an IRS auditor. “What do you have to lose?
You’ve got no transportation, and it looks like you’re a goner
anyway!” The man thinks about this for a minute, and
decides that the genie is right. “OK, I wish I were in a lush oasis with
plentiful food and drink.”POOF” The man
finds himself in the most beautiful oasis he has ever seen.  And he is
surrounded with jugs of wine and platters of delicacies. “OK, kid, what’s
your second wish.” “My second wish is that I were rich beyond my wildest
dreams.”POOF” The man finds himself
surrounded by treasure chests filled with rare gold coins and precious
gems. “OK, kid, you have just one more wish. Better make it a good
one!” After thinking for a few minutes, the man says “I wish
that no matter where I go beautiful women will want and need me.”
“POOF” He is turned into a tampon The moral
of the story: If the government offers you anything there’s going to be a
string attached.