Well it’s Tax Day and….aw crap, I knew I forgot something. Luckily, Delaware is not an actual state so I doubt that they can legally enforce anything here. I mean, they have Larry the Police Officer but he’s cool and besides the state would have to stop leasing out its sole jail cell as a hotel room in order to put anyone in it. Just kidding of course. I’ve filed in all of the various states and the federal taxes in one of those events that becomes even more annoying as I grow older.
I can still guarantee that you will see news coverage of people rushing to the post office before midnight. Or at least you always got that in the good old, pre-electronic filing days. I never quite understood why someone waited until 11 PM to get to the post office, I mean couldn’t you have just dropped it in the mail that morning? Pretty soon there will be no paper filing. I haven’t received a tax form in years. Just another things that kids today will never understand.
(Also on that list: black and white television. Did anyone else here have an old black and white TV in their bedroom growing up? That was like the most awesome thing ever. Just the sheer fact that you had a TV in your room was almost unimaginable. Nowadays that seems beyond quaint. More like something that you would see on Little House on the Prairie.)
Also, I am happy that Kim and I traveled to Iceland a) while Iceland still exists and b) before Iceland makes it impossible to travel to Europe. I said it before but Kim and I drove right past that volcano. I have to check my notes but we might actually have pictures of it. It’s tough to recall exactly which glacier you saw in Iceland because the names themselves are so long and lacking in vowels that you can never quite remember where you were. You just saw a lot of really cool looking ice and steam. I still say that it is a very neat place to visit and if you were to get stuck someplace due to a volcanic eruption the Blue Lagoon spa may be my top choice. Especially if you could get them to lighten up on their two drink maximum rule.
That is about it for tonight as I am pretty spent. I am back into workout mode, which is a great thing. It means that everything hurts but at some point that will provide benefits. Get well wishes go out to Bret Michaels who just had an emergency appendectomy. Hope that will not prevent him from getting back on the Rock of Love bus because I don’t know what I would do without his presence on VH-1. Now that Celebrity Fit Club is over we need some new celebreality.
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Thursday, April 15, 2010
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
The Taxman Cometh
It’s 10:30. Do you know where your tax forms are? Are you currently on a plane heading west just to gain an extra hour or two of time to file? Or are you coming to the conclusion that taxes are for little people and just simply not paying any this year?
Two interesting things about Tax Day this year. First off, it is getting much more coverage than it has in past years. Now with the economy in the shape that it is in this is to be expected. Having to pony up additional dollars at a time when many are just scraping by would make for a good news story. But the stories haven’t been about the tedium of filling out the forms or the potential hardship of having to pay additional taxes. It is this almost despair over the fact that it is now tax time as if we do not go through this exact same process year after year. True, times are tighter than before but we don’t have to treat today with the same seriousness as when the asteroid is about to smash into the planet.
The other thing that is bothering me are all of these tea party protests. I am not bothered by the idea behind the protests. If people want to complain that their taxes are too high then that is their right. I just hope they keep in mind how much they appreciate clean water, working sewer systems, snow removal, a standing military, park rangers wearing funny hats and Tang. (I’m talking about the preferred drink of astronauts. Get your mind out of the gutter.) Yes, some of your tax dollars may be wasted but not all of them are. Also, if there is a stage, a camera crew and Ted Nugent present it really can’t be considered a grass roots protest. It means someone spent a good amount of money to organize.
Actually my biggest issue with the whole thing is that it results in straight faced newsmen to say things like “The American populace has expressed their desire to teabag the White House.” I for one have no desire to have that image emblazoned in my mind.
I guess I don’t have too many issues with taxes. Yes, we pay too much but that is one of the prices we pay to live in a society like ours. Despite what anyone thinks we don’t live and have never lived in a truly capitalist society. If we did there would be people running at me with pitchforks every moment of the day. Instead we pay a fee for someone to keep the streets clean, the trains running on time and everyone at a pre-determined base level of happiness. The process could be made easier and it would sure be nice if I didn’t have to file in four states like I did this year but at the end of the day it is like flossing. You need to do it and if you don’t some day you are going to have to undergo a very painful procedure.
Wednesday Night Music Club: Since I’ve been listening to him here is some Lyle Lovett to either end or start the day on the right note. Just depends on when you read the page I guess.
Two interesting things about Tax Day this year. First off, it is getting much more coverage than it has in past years. Now with the economy in the shape that it is in this is to be expected. Having to pony up additional dollars at a time when many are just scraping by would make for a good news story. But the stories haven’t been about the tedium of filling out the forms or the potential hardship of having to pay additional taxes. It is this almost despair over the fact that it is now tax time as if we do not go through this exact same process year after year. True, times are tighter than before but we don’t have to treat today with the same seriousness as when the asteroid is about to smash into the planet.
The other thing that is bothering me are all of these tea party protests. I am not bothered by the idea behind the protests. If people want to complain that their taxes are too high then that is their right. I just hope they keep in mind how much they appreciate clean water, working sewer systems, snow removal, a standing military, park rangers wearing funny hats and Tang. (I’m talking about the preferred drink of astronauts. Get your mind out of the gutter.) Yes, some of your tax dollars may be wasted but not all of them are. Also, if there is a stage, a camera crew and Ted Nugent present it really can’t be considered a grass roots protest. It means someone spent a good amount of money to organize.
Actually my biggest issue with the whole thing is that it results in straight faced newsmen to say things like “The American populace has expressed their desire to teabag the White House.” I for one have no desire to have that image emblazoned in my mind.
I guess I don’t have too many issues with taxes. Yes, we pay too much but that is one of the prices we pay to live in a society like ours. Despite what anyone thinks we don’t live and have never lived in a truly capitalist society. If we did there would be people running at me with pitchforks every moment of the day. Instead we pay a fee for someone to keep the streets clean, the trains running on time and everyone at a pre-determined base level of happiness. The process could be made easier and it would sure be nice if I didn’t have to file in four states like I did this year but at the end of the day it is like flossing. You need to do it and if you don’t some day you are going to have to undergo a very painful procedure.
Wednesday Night Music Club: Since I’ve been listening to him here is some Lyle Lovett to either end or start the day on the right note. Just depends on when you read the page I guess.
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