The last hamburger...

[David Savage]

On Jan 2, 2008 6:00 AM, P. J. Alling <webster26 at mindspring.com> wrote:
> >
> >  The taxes involved were a
> > form of economic coercion.
> And thats different from today in what way?
>
> Lets see, you get a tax break for buying a house, ( but only on credit,
> not with cash),  you get a tax break for being married, (and having
> children).  You get taxed more if you  use alcohol, or smoke tobacco.
> The tax system is used to punish for improper behavior, or in some cases
> proper behavior.  Federal income taxes are so complicated that you need
> an expert to even find out what some of the tax breaks and pitfalls are,
> and even then the contradictory parts can bring you to grief.  Nothing
> coercive about our current tax system.  What torques me more than
> anything else is we vote for the a**h***s.

After the lady who prepared my last tax return had finished
calculating the damage, she said to me:

"You are a good citizen. The government loves people like you."

The laugh that comment generated took some of the sting out of the final total.


Cheers,

Dave (Being single with no dependants and not many deductions I wish
the government didn't like me so much)