NEW YORK—“I had every intention of getting my taxes done early, but…” said one New Yorker after leaving the James A. Farley Post Office on 8th Avenue and 32nd Street on Friday night. The environment, she said, was crazy, with cops, celebrities and perhaps the most interesting, advocacy groups, trying to get their “tax messages” out to the world.

In front of the Post Office, various advocacy groups greeted crowds of frantic last minute taxpayers on April 15, the last day for filing taxes.

One group called “Billionaires for Bush,” used satirical humor to criticize tax cuts received by higher income individuals. Extravagantly dressed protesters held champagne glasses and shouted slogans, “Make money! United! We’ll never be defeated!”

One Billionaire for Bush who called herself Deva Dans, commented, “We’re here to toast the middle class for paying our fair share of the taxes, so that their tax cuts are 50 percent less then ours tax cuts, so that I can spend a summer on my yacht with my share while they can purchase a movie ticket.”

Another group made a similar point in a less dramatic manner, by handing out pamphlets called, “The People’s Income Tax Guide,” which said that working class citizens shouldn’t be taxed so much.

According to the group, “The wages and salaries of most Americans are not ‘income’ taxable.”

Other groups advocated a flat tax. Adam Yomtove from “Americans for Fair Taxation,” said, they want to replace personal, corporate, state, gain, estate, and capital taxes with a “progressive sales tax.” In other words, replacing all taxes with higher sales taxes that would be based on the goods being bought rather than the income of the people buying them.

Yomtove said that this would save a lot of time and energy and completely remove the tax filing process. “It would save the average American family $1 thousand a year,” said Yomtove.

According to Mr. Yomtove, legislation moving in this direction is currently being considered by the Federal government.