US$251 poorer
2011-Mar-24, Thursday 08:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mellowtiggerI 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 $20 to TurboTax for filing all of my forms electronically to keep me from having to figure out addresses and stamps at a post office open at inconvenient times.
As long as it keeps bureaucrats away from me for another year, I suppose it's money well spent.
I half-remember a Republican who campaigned several years ago on the promise to make tax calculation forms fit on a postcard. I wish.
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Date: 2011-Mar-25, Friday 02:35 am (UTC)("There is a long tradition of using Sweden as a socialist model to highlight social shortcomings in the United States." - Christian Science Monitor)
More seriously, though, why can't we have a system like theirs? If the vast majority of the US$ 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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Date: 2011-Mar-25, Friday 02:55 am (UTC)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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Date: 2011-Mar-25, Friday 05:37 am (UTC)