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Everyone who gets a migraine filling out their Federal tax return, raise your hand!

lot of years ago, former Governor Jerry Brown made a bid for the Presidency. One of his pioneering ideas was to make tax filing easy , using a straight percentage of 10% of your earnings, no stuff who you were, irrespective of income level. This sounded like a great idea , but it never materialized. Having years of knowledge working as an accountant, you'd think I'd have no trouble wading through the infamous 1040 tax booklet. Although the IRS provides an predictable time crucial to set up each section, they must be dreaming or their approximation assumes you're using software.

Did you know that all of the rules and system pertaining to the IRS tax return fills sixty feet of book shelf space? Yes indeed . This gives us instant proof as to why filing a Federal tax return isn't simple. Tax training software is believed to resolve this trouble, but it's not foolproof. Should you misconstrue a question and supply the wrong answer, you'll hear about it from the IRS just when you're expecting that envelope to contain your repayment or stimulus check. This can be an annoying, not to state disappointing experience.

Perhaps I'm just too vigorous. There are just too many potential pitfalls, so I read the booklet, usually three times, so that when my Federal tax filing is sent off, I believe with all my heart it's right. It's funny that that old adage, 'close sufficient for government work' does not apply to your Federal tax return. The cause I read the booklet in place of relying on software, is that any little detail can blow the whole effort. It's always best to be careful, right? Well, one serious flaw in the booklet is that it's not written in plain English. It's riddled with IRS jargon, twice negatives and the like. It's also not accessible in sequence, almost certainly because of those sixty feet of shelf space.

You're shuttled from one worksheet to a further and then back to where you started. By the time you've made all the calculations, your head is header and you have no idea what the figure on that line of the Federal tax return represents! It's foolish to make a decision you need a break, because by the time you come back to it, you no longer know what the heck they're talking about. Wasn't it Charlie Brown who famously uttered , “Aaaaargh!”. Death and taxes, both are unavoidable. However, wouldn't it be nice if our government decided to take pity on us poor taxpayers and carry a booklet in plain English and an abbreviated form.

Here's your income line, next your conclusion amount and a straight percentage rate of tax. This is my thought of a dream Federal tax return. How about you? Maybe if our Congressional and Senatorial council were deluged with taxpayer requests for a kinder, gentler taxation system, they'd listen. We can only hope.

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March 28, 2011

13Xanadu @ 10:43 pm #

Typical leftist ivory tower elitist convoluted argument against simple common sense.? The best answer is usually the simplest. We do not have a tax problem that the Progressives would solve by raising taxes but the Laffer curves proves that income would go down so their next solution is to print more money but that will cause inflation. Here is a novel idea cut spending I know it is to simple and it is what most households do to avoid bankruptcy.

April 15, 2011

i_am_man @ 4:29 pm #

hahaha cute. though it would be better if she were the little red-haired girl. ever since you posted those charlie brown existential moments ive been noticing them whenever i read charlie brown.
like i went back home for the summer and found these old old old anthologies and on the back of one it just says
"Charlie brown, in the great failure olympics, you are still the champion."
i lulzed pretty hard.

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js paine writes:
i'm not sure
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if running and re running
for elective public office
becomes an overt
year in year out
24/7
game…

You may have a point there, on a technical level, but I'm thinking about the survival of my sanity, here.

Dennis The Menace announced for '08 when…towards the end of Novemberish, wasn't it? And now we've got Senator Breck Boy announcing in the week between Christmas and New Year's, driving home the point by — as the Mexicans say — "taking a bath in the People".

Used to be, no matter how wretched and awful and banal a Presidential/Congressional/Senatorial/Council/Mayoral election cycle was, I could count on six or eight months of peace and quiet while I healed up after having my consciousness relentlessly beaten into a quivering mush by a torrent of campaign ads, issue ads, allegation ads, setting-the-record-straight ads, truth-squadding, swift-boating, robo-dialing, and candidates' bold declarations on such pressing issues as gay marriage, stem-cell research and flag burning.

Now, here we are not even two months after the most recent edition of the combination USO Spectacular and carnival freak show, and already we have Dennis The Menace and Senator Breck Boy performing the equivalent of a "Radio Shack Merry Christmas" commercial during the goddamn' World Series.

Enough, already. My fucking brain hurts. Fuck "Democracy". Somebody, anybody, just stop the goddamn' torture. Dear God, somebody make it stop:

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js paine writes:
i'm not sure
it does any additional harm
if running and re running
for elective public office
becomes an overt
year in year out
24/7
game…

You may have a point there, on a technical level, but I'm thinking about the survival of my sanity, here.

Dennis The Menace announced for '08 when…towards the end of Novemberish, wasn't it? And now we've got Senator Breck Boy announcing in the week between Christmas and New Year's, driving home the point by — as the Mexicans say — "taking a bath in the People".

Used to be, no matter how wretched and awful and banal a Presidential/Congressional/Senatorial/Council/Mayoral election cycle was, I could count on six or eight months of peace and quiet while I healed up after having my consciousness relentlessly beaten into a quivering mush by a torrent of campaign ads, issue ads, allegation ads, setting-the-record-straight ads, truth-squadding, swift-boating, robo-dialing, and candidates' bold declarations on such pressing issues as gay marriage, stem-cell research and flag burning.

Now, here we are not even two months after the most recent edition of the combination USO Spectacular and carnival freak show, and already we have Dennis The Menace and Senator Breck Boy performing the equivalent of a "Radio Shack Merry Christmas" commercial during the goddamn' World Series.

Enough, already. My fucking brain hurts. Fuck "Democracy". Somebody, anybody, just stop the goddamn' torture. Dear God, somebody make it stop:

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April 9, 2012

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May 17, 2012

js paine writes:
i'm not sure
it does any additional harm
if running and re running
for elective public office
becomes an overt
year in year out
24/7
game…

You may have a point there, on a technical level, but I'm thinking about the survival of my sanity, here.

Dennis The Menace announced for '08 when…towards the end of Novemberish, wasn't it? And now we've got Senator Breck Boy announcing in the week between Christmas and New Year's, driving home the point by — as the Mexicans say — "taking a bath in the People".

Used to be, no matter how wretched and awful and banal a Presidential/Congressional/Senatorial/Council/Mayoral election cycle was, I could count on six or eight months of peace and quiet while I healed up after having my consciousness relentlessly beaten into a quivering mush by a torrent of campaign ads, issue ads, allegation ads, setting-the-record-straight ads, truth-squadding, swift-boating, robo-dialing, and candidates' bold declarations on such pressing issues as gay marriage, stem-cell research and flag burning.

Now, here we are not even two months after the most recent edition of the combination USO Spectacular and carnival freak show, and already we have Dennis The Menace and Senator Breck Boy performing the equivalent of a "Radio Shack Merry Christmas" commercial during the goddamn' World Series.

Enough, already. My fucking brain hurts. Fuck "Democracy". Somebody, anybody, just stop the goddamn' torture. Dear God, somebody make it stop:

]]>

May 18, 2012

raisingprofiles @ 3:33 am #

Funny how hesitant I've gotten to celebrate good news. I start to anticipate the uphill slog & potential pitfalls immediately.