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Y'know, I don't object to paying taxes. Unlike the teabag idiots, I understand the necessity and the responsibility. What I don't get is why it has to be so damned complicated.
Forms completed, thank goodness. I'm getting money back from the feds, as I should. I got tired of having to pay them every year and bumped up my withholding. Now they take too much out. That was compounded by the fact that the recession has reduced the interest earned on my savings to a quarter of what it used to be. So I don't owe them a lot of tax on earned interest. The federal refund is a pretty hefty amount this year compared to the last few years. But I still end up owing Illinois. This seems to be a regular rule. No matter what, I always owe Illinois. And what does Illinois do with it? Good question. Nothing useful, I'm sure. They've been not paying money owed to schools, libraries, etc. I guess it all goes to pay legislators and their abundant staff or something.
The so-called health care reform is bound to make this even more complicated. Of course, it isn't a reform at all. It's just an expansion of the existing private insurance disaster. Couldn't actually do anything to compete or lower costs, that would make the insurance companies mad and they might not donate money to political campaigns any more. So we get nothing except a lot more paperwork and no improvement in health care at all.
Once again it turns out that we voted only for the lesser of two evils, and not much less at that. I wouldn't vote for McCain and Palin because I knew they'd commit ecological rape the minute they were able. Well, the Obama administration is doing the same thing anyway. They carried out programs initiated by the Bush administration without reviewing them. As a result protected wolf populations that were UNDER STUDY were slaughtered by idiot hunters. Oil drilling in sensitive coastal areas is going ahead. Private profiteering on federal lands is continuing at the same pace as before. This administration has delivered absolutely nothing of what it promised. Note that this does not entitle the Republicans to any credit either. They have contributed nothing useful at all, just stood around screaming "No, no, no" at everything anyone tried to propose. No counter offers, no constructive suggestions, just "No, no, no." They have become the "No, nothing" party, and I'll not be voting for any of them either.
Forms completed, thank goodness. I'm getting money back from the feds, as I should. I got tired of having to pay them every year and bumped up my withholding. Now they take too much out. That was compounded by the fact that the recession has reduced the interest earned on my savings to a quarter of what it used to be. So I don't owe them a lot of tax on earned interest. The federal refund is a pretty hefty amount this year compared to the last few years. But I still end up owing Illinois. This seems to be a regular rule. No matter what, I always owe Illinois. And what does Illinois do with it? Good question. Nothing useful, I'm sure. They've been not paying money owed to schools, libraries, etc. I guess it all goes to pay legislators and their abundant staff or something.
The so-called health care reform is bound to make this even more complicated. Of course, it isn't a reform at all. It's just an expansion of the existing private insurance disaster. Couldn't actually do anything to compete or lower costs, that would make the insurance companies mad and they might not donate money to political campaigns any more. So we get nothing except a lot more paperwork and no improvement in health care at all.
Once again it turns out that we voted only for the lesser of two evils, and not much less at that. I wouldn't vote for McCain and Palin because I knew they'd commit ecological rape the minute they were able. Well, the Obama administration is doing the same thing anyway. They carried out programs initiated by the Bush administration without reviewing them. As a result protected wolf populations that were UNDER STUDY were slaughtered by idiot hunters. Oil drilling in sensitive coastal areas is going ahead. Private profiteering on federal lands is continuing at the same pace as before. This administration has delivered absolutely nothing of what it promised. Note that this does not entitle the Republicans to any credit either. They have contributed nothing useful at all, just stood around screaming "No, no, no" at everything anyone tried to propose. No counter offers, no constructive suggestions, just "No, no, no." They have become the "No, nothing" party, and I'll not be voting for any of them either.
