Ignominy of - 1040
I have been looking over this formal invitation I received about the first of the year from my dear old Uncle Sammy. It is the same old party he throws every year, and, looking back through my files, I find that I have been helping him finance this party since the early 1940's. I don't know how much I have contributed to this fund, and I hesitate to figure it up, because I know that once I see the total of these figures, I will wonder just who I have been working for.
To tell the truth, I would like to ignore this invitation and cram the whole thing in that little round receptical at the end of my desk, but since this invitation is so formal, straight-forward and polite, I dare not ignore his preeminent request. I know that this party is going to be expensive, and I know who is going to pick up the tab, but Uncle has tried to soften the blow by assuring me that in filing these simple and easy-to-understand forms, I should have no trouble in determining how much I should contribute toward the financing of his party.
I take another look at these forms, and I see a heterogeneous conglomeration of questions and statements that reminds me of a crossword puzzle which has been formulated by a committee that is incapable of exercising even one modicum of common sense.
Sinc 1986 this tax code has been amended about 15,000 times and is now like a block of malignant Swiss cheese, with loop-holes running in every direction, holes large enough and designed in such way that large conglomerates and special interest groups can fanigle their way through the loop-holes and greatly reduce their tax liability.
Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg address did a pretty good job of defining our Nation in 272 words. Our bible, which outlines several thousand years of history, is made up of about 773,000 words, but the I.R.S. found it necessary to use over 9 million words to tell me how to determine the amount of taxes I owe.
It would take a mathematical wizzard with a degree in economics, law, and political science to have any idea as to what is contained in this tax code, and it is pathetic that we have individuals who are smart enough and capable of earning an income that will run into six figures, but who are not capable of preparing their own income tax return. Over 75 percent of tax payers find these tax forms so complicated that they make no attempt to do the job theselves.
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- -- Posted by goat lady on Sat, Feb 20, 2010, at 10:44 AM
- -- Posted by mythought on Tue, Feb 23, 2010, at 1:27 PM
- -- Posted by geezerette on Tue, Feb 23, 2010, at 9:55 PM
- -- Posted by mythought on Wed, Feb 24, 2010, at 10:57 AM
- -- Posted by goat lady on Sat, Feb 27, 2010, at 8:54 AM
- -- Posted by FJGuy on Sun, Feb 28, 2010, at 12:03 AM
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