Its been a while, a long while, since I've posted anything. Maybe all the news about our nations economy, friends of mine being laid off, homes being foreclosed, and my business in the shit can, has made me a little reclusive lately. A little? I keep a rope with a noose on it in my desk drawer at all times! On top of all this, its tax season, and the only thing that I'll be getting back from the government is a letter of penalty from my 2007 taxes. Oh well.
Tax season in the U.S., is like a wild ride at Disneyland. Some of us find great joy in the ride because of the refunds, and others just vomit while riding, because they know they have to pay. The whole process of tax filing is too complicated, takes to long, and is a mystery to most. Even the name is glorified. 'Tax Season'. Like it takes a whole friggen season to file. Like we have to dedicate three months out of the year for this crap. It's about Turbo Tax, and H&R Block, and those dumb asses at Liberty Tax dressing up like the Statue of Liberty and waving like trained chimps on street corners to get you to use them. Its about tax attorneys, the thousands of IRS employees, and the dump-truck loads of printer ink you go through to print a copy of your return. It's bigger than Christmas, and non- denominational at that. Everyone gets involved. State taxes, too? Get me a Tylenol.
I think its time, in a world where time is more valuable than anything, we simplify things. The U.S. Tax Code is 6,000 pages ! The bible is only about 300 pages! I haven't read more then a few pages in either one of them, but at least the Bible tells a story. It's time for a flat tax. I can hear some of you screaming, "What about my write offs, what about my write offs!" Fuck your write offs. Everybody pays the same percentage on their income. Make 10 grand and if the tax is 5% you pay $500.00. Make 500 grand and your tax is $25,000. You have less taken from your paycheck,and may have more spendable cash during the year. Figure it out. At the end of the year, you fill out one piece of paper, make one calculation, and mail a one page form. Tax season becomes tax day. Life moves on. I mean, you're gonna eventually pay something, because if you show no income then you can't buy anything of value if you need a loan on it. Show too much income, and Uncle Sam gets a bigger cut. You're damned if you do and damned if you don't. As my Uncle Stugots once said, "A fine is a tax if you do something wrong, and a tax is a fine if you do something good".
Now I know all the tax attorneys, tax preparers, tax software companies, IRS employees, and the big corporations, (because they pay almost nothing), hate my idea, and it will probably never happen. I mean, what will they do with themselves? Well,perhaps they can go work at Disneyland and run a theme ride. Then they can see the faces of those who rejoice, and clean up after those who puke,- just like they do now !
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