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mellowtigger) wrote2011-03-24 08:34 pm
mellowtigger) wrote2011-03-24 08:34 pm
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US$251 poorer
I just paid my taxes electronically. I didn't understand most of it and just clicked through the defaults on everything. (No, I didn't pay alimony in 2010. No, I didn't pay to have my livestock tested for something-or-other-disease. No, I didn't participate in any complicated government fund where I pay money ahead of time and withdraw within limits for yadda, yadda, yadda.)
In addition to what's taken out of my paycheck throughout the year, I paid another $156 to the U.S. government, another $75 to the Minnesota state government, and $20 to TurboTax for filing all of my forms electronically to keep me from having to figure out addresses and stamps at a post office open at inconvenient times.
As long as it keeps bureaucrats away from me for another year, I suppose it's money well spent.
I half-remember a Republican who campaigned several years ago on the promise to make tax calculation forms fit on a postcard. I wish.
In addition to what's taken out of my paycheck throughout the year, I paid another $156 to the U.S. government, another $75 to the Minnesota state government, and $20 to TurboTax for filing all of my forms electronically to keep me from having to figure out addresses and stamps at a post office open at inconvenient times.
As long as it keeps bureaucrats away from me for another year, I suppose it's money well spent.
I half-remember a Republican who campaigned several years ago on the promise to make tax calculation forms fit on a postcard. I wish.
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("There is a long tradition of using Sweden as a socialist model to highlight social shortcomings in the United States." - Christian Science Monitor)
More seriously, though, why can't we have a system like theirs? If the vast majority of the US$ is concentrated in the hands of 10% of the citizenship, then why not just tax "Where The Money Is" to pay for the government?
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And yes, i would vote Socialist-Democrat in a heart beat provided it was the real deal and not a Nationalist Socialist Party a la the infamous one in post WW I Germany that brought a certain madman to power. (Hint: names starting with the letter H)
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"I half-remember a Republican who campaigned several years ago on the promise to make tax calculation forms fit on a postcard."
It can be done here. It just takes a really really really really tiny font
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Terry, you're one of the sweetest guys I know but learned helplessness like this is grossly unappealing.
D/l the PDF forms & instructions and fill them out, it takes a long afternoon and is only moderately frustrating (debuggin a couple hundred lines of code is harder). You save the fee and you have to figure out the same quirks that you do in turbotax.
I'm getting $1600 back from $1000 taxes i've paid, refundable tax credits rule. Of course I only made $9977 last year & got the making work pay ($400) and the earned income ($200) tax credits. I had thousands of dollars of deductions from tuition and the loss I took on my house that I never used.
Had to file a 1040a. Sch M, 8863, & an Oregon sch 40p. Much easier than the crap I had to do for self employed & owed money but made less than 5k last year.
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