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| Re: OT US tax code law [message #83135 is a reply to message #83133] |
Sun, 15 April 2007 14:46   |
Paul Artola
Messages: 161
Registered: November 2005
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Bill -
This year's taxes were especially painful for me - not so much for the
money I had to pay, but for the brain-twisting I had to go thru to
fill out the forms. These days, I don't even mess with hardcopies, but
go straight to online tax prep services. I did our family taxes at
TaxEngine.com, and that seemed to do fine for our Fed and State
returns, especially the quick filing and refunds. However, I also had
to file for my 10-year-old's stock investments. In the end, I had to
do those at TurboTax.com cause the other site couldn't seem to handle
the fact that a 10-year-old who made $4,000 in investments should have
to pay $12,000 in taxes!
All this work definitely causes reflection on our system, and I think
it comes down to this - if we simplified that tax system, millions of
us would benefit from simplicity, but a large chunk of the accounting
profession would be out of work. And we know who pays when a major
employment sector is suddenly unemployed.
And so it goes (rip K.V.)...
- Paul Artola
Ellicott City, Maryland
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:14:40 -0400, Bill L <bill@billlorentzen.com>
wrote:
>I'm doing my taxes and I have just one thing to say:
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>WHO THE F**K THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA?
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>If I worked for a year I don't think I could create such a ridiculously
>complicated rat's nest of complexity. In fact I seriously don't think
>any sane person person could create it.
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>If you are an American please, please look up the Fair Tax
>http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer. Anyone, Democrat or Republican,
>would benefit. No one takes an unfair hit. And we all would enjoy the
>prosperity it would promote to the American people. It is the sanest
>solution to this wasteful, ludicrous, special interest benefiting code
>of laws we currently have.
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>No matter what you may have heard about it, please study it for yourself
>and see if it makes sense.
>
>Honestly, we need a new solution. NOW! Support The Fair Tax!
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