So....did the taxes this morning.
As usual, I owed....no surprise there.
This year was higher than anything I ever imagined.
But still...this is fine...because its all my money. I have less withheld, so its in my pocket all year, and at the end I have to hand it over to uncle sam...no big deal, I still prefer that as opposed to getting smaller paychecks and letting my government manage my money for me.
What I learned today however was that if you owe more than a thousand to the fed two years back to back, they assess a penalty fine...of a few hundred bucks....because I didnt give them the opportunity to withhold enough. I spoke with my accountant about this. They told me that basically, every year the IRS expects you to either owe or get a return somewhere under $1000. If you continually owe more than that, they feel that you should be having more withheld rather than keeping it to yourself where the government cant make money off of you. To encourage this behavior, you are fined a penalty every year you owe too much.
Just who the fuck do the leaders of this country think they are?
Its not enough that I am already in one the higher brackets and fork over a pretty handsome five figure number every year. On top of that, they are going to ride me because I dont allow them use my hard earned cash during the year? Fuck them. It makes me sick to think for every piece of shit out there taking a handout, I am working my ass off just to hand over damned near 30% of everything I earn, against my will, and then to top it off....I get fined because they would prefer more frequent deposits? Well suck me....not gonna happen.
It would seem to me that all the current tax scheme does is encourage the poor to stay poor.
I wonder how many of these idiot liberals that bitch about tax cuts for the wealthy have a clue how stupid they are. Im not rich by any measure, but I am very fortunate to have a good career and I do well. I get screwed....hard.....every year. The more money I make, the higher the bracket and the more they take away. Where are these tax cuts for the rich I wonder? Hmmmm.
There are always those people that cry about the upper 1% controlling the other 99%.
Hey....heres a news flash....that upper 1% fucking bankrolls the economy and sustains communities with the taxes they, and their corporations pay. Keep crying about the upper 1%....see what happens when they take their business offshore....oh wait, they are already starting to do that.
But hey, it could be worse. I have a friend in west Germany that make about what I do, probably a little more....pays around 60% in national tax. Hey, someone needs to subsidize the rebuilding of east Germany. Thankfully....that will never happen here. Oh wait....Katrina...the rebuilding of New Orleans.
I suppose the privilage of having a job, a roof over my head, and food in the fridge comes at the price of the government forcing me to share whatever I have left over with my community. Lucky them!