i do actually HATE something... I really hate it... and it's akin to politics and staring me in the face right now...
taxes. i despise them. it's not enough that everything you buy is taxed, and after already being taxed several times in the raw material all the way to production phase, and then the funds you use to purchase are taxed as income, and.... on and on.... it's complicated with layers and layers of complexity, with each deduction buried just deep enough to make you question whether it's worth diving for... and it is... because, if nothing else, EF THEM- that's why.
then comes the puzzling items... and this i just don't get... if i paid too much in taxes i get a return... one from the state of from the feds... the feds, the following year, tax my state return from the prior year as income, and the state taxes my federal as income... taxes i overpaid they tax. they cut a check and send it to me, and i get to figure out how much taxes to pay on it... it's income, okay, i guess i can make that leap, but.... it's being sent from each respective tax organization, so why can't they account for taxes off the tax overpayment i made and send me that?
why do they offer a deduction? being basically suspicious of free money, i questioned that the first time i ever did taxes other than an EZ form, and guess what? I've NEVER came short of at least DOUBLING the 'standard deduction'..... which is to say that thing is implemented, i'm certain, to lure the lazy or the dumb... or the dumb lazy...
and another: why are there 97k pages to the federal tax code alone?
if i had million or billions, i too could hire a legion of tax attorney's to find every loop hole in the mess, and come out with a return large enough to pay for that legion of tax attorney's- which is the REAL reason why there are 97k pages- to hide loopholes...
i'm going to do the same thing i've done for the past ten years starting this weekend- i'm going to get drunk on homemade booze and giggle about revenuers whilst i do my annual civil duty of taxes... but i ain't gonna make it easy on them no i'm not... i can't recall the last time my completed taxes were less than 175 pages.
i HATE taxes....