Bar Tabs and Tax Cuts Commentary

Monday, March 31. 2008

Bar Tabs and Tax Cuts Commentary

This link was shared by Mike recently. Read it so you have some context for this post.

I'll agree that the concept of all of the rich people moving out of the country or somehow moving their finances in such a way that they aren't taxed by the U.S. government is unlikely, but if you are going to cut taxes, why wouldn't it be distributed based on percentages? We pay based on a percentage, and even with the example in the "parable" the richer folks got a smaller percent return even though in dollars it was more. Either way, a tax cut seems pointless if we have a large deficit, so I don't even know why the blogger felt the need to mention it right now. Maybe if I payed attention to the news I would know if some presidential candidate mentioned a tax cut, but that's the only way I can imagine this article has any real relevance to the present.

Now follow me down my path of anger, and then how I shifted my anger. I got mad at the blogger first. "Hey number 5, why don't you be fucking glad you now drink for free? Five of you fucks are getting a beer on everyone else's dime, don't be like, 'I didn't get much/any money off.' You didn't pay dick."

Then I had a realization that shifted my anger. "Wait a fucking second, in this story everyone is getting the same thing, they all get one equal beer."

Anyone else now see the problem with the story? It sounds like there's some socialism implied in the story. Of course this instant, during my writing I realize that the beer is representing not what each man has, but what the government does for each man, which in theory is supposed to be equal for all.

Fuck, my anger is now without direction. Can you feel my stream of consciousness now? Lol.

Taxes are gay. It's way too fucking complicated. I sort of get why, but it's such a damned mess. It is just absurdly complicated to figure out what your share of taxes to pay is. The worst part is that there's no super fair and simple way out of it.

P.S. - I did my taxes in like January or early February, so I'm not bitching because I didn't do them yet and wish I didn't have to.

Posted by Andy at 18:57 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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Nah Andy, I chose to read this scans_daily style: "Context is for the weak!"

But anyway, over in this neck of the woods, just recently, Chicago realized "Oh shit! We fucked up mass transit by horribly underfunding it for years and now it's biting us in the ass!", so not only did the fares increase to accommodate, but state and local taxes across the board have increased from already being really high. So at least here, the state and local governments are kinda countering whatever tax cuts may come from the big gov regardless. (And I now realize this could potentially be 'Chicago Annoying Files: Part 2' in the making. Eh, we'll see).

#1 Paul (Homepage) on 2008-03-31 20:16 (Reply)

I didn't put much thought into sharing that article. It just kind of stood out because it reminded me of all those chain emails that seem to use fuzzy logic in order to reaffirm an already established belief. Thankfully I haven't seen many of those since I started replying with 'I don't want to call you an idiot but here is a snopes article'-type messages.

As far as why the blogger chose to write about this now, probably just because it's tax season. The candidates haven't spent much time on taxes. They are too busy taking pot shots at each other.

My taxes have been done for a while. I got my federal refund last week. Man I wish I was a student again, I get less and less back each year. At least I haven't owed anything yet.

#2 Mike on 2008-04-05 21:43 (Reply)

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