Have fun at work P....
I'm officially on vacation!! I don't have to go to work till Tuesday..

Heading to Austin, TX tomorrow morning! Wooooo!!

Must be nice...have fun on your days off.

Have fun; I've been off this week (and will continue to be until Monday), but I just stayed at home. I finally got my taxes in the mail today. I did them yesterday -- my combined Federal and State refunds are $1683.00, so it's not that I was going to have to pay, I just resent having to gather all the paperwork and fill out the forms.

I resent even more that taxes have either gotten complex enough or the educational system is so broken down that an assumption seems to be made that people must have their taxes done by a pro. Both the Fed and State forms have lines for a paid preparer as well as a third-party representative for them to contact.

By the way, for any other last minute filers out there, I've been told that Post Offices are not staying open late this year.

dang...today had be really tough. Crazy amount of stuff to do at work, glad I got out early...

My taxes are simple and I did them online. My Dad spends a small fortune every quarter.

yeah doing taxes are pretty easy nowadays. I remember how it used to involve a lot of paper work...

I've done them online before. Mine are fairly simple too -- I have one job and three bank accounts. I'm not self-employed, don't have high medical bills, or give away lots of money, or pay enough in mortgage interest to itemize. I do work in a different state (KY) than I live in (IN), which adds a little complexity to my state calculations, but not too much.

This year, my income went just over the limit to e-file free. That's another stupid thing -- they want me to pay in order to file online. So, instead of filling out forms in the way that they'll actually want to process them -- in a digital format -- my incentive is to send them paper, which they'll have to pay to have transcribed into a digital format. How much sense does that make?

"Efficiency does not matter. "Fairness" is the thing. Folks who make too much need to pitch in and be patriotic by paying to file on line."


Joe Biden

Both Palin and Biden were very poor intellectual specimens. Has the choice of Vice President become part of the Presidential health plan?

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