Death and Taxes

Well, taxes, anyway. No death in this post, just some things that may make you want to threaten someone with it.

We’ll start with a little humor, though, just to provide better contrast with the rest of the post.

Rachel Lucas has a fine rant on the occasion of paying her taxes. My federal taxes are higher than hers, but I’m fairly certain I make more money than she. Unlike her, I also get to pay state income tax here in Colorado, which pushed my income taxes up to about 25% of my taxable income. Democrats in the Colorado state government are also planning another assault on TABOR, so I expect state taxes to increase more quickly in the near future.

Then I had the additional dubious pleasure of having to submit a 1040X for 2006, because I got sent an erroneous 1099 last year, and a corrected one after I’d submitted my taxes. It meant that I had to send in more money, which was so nice.

Willisms talks about Tax Freedom Day, and also about the taxes we can expect to see in the near future.

That last link is the one most likely to cause what Kim du Toit refers to as an RCOB moment, and it relates to the idea that there really are two Americas. I’m pretty sure I know which one I live in.

Finally, Francis Porretto, the Curmudgeon Emeritus, talks on a related subject in item 3 of this post. More can be found on this topic here.

Then again, maybe the last link should be this.

UPDATE: Physics Geek has a good post, too. And we certainly can’t forget this:

Snoopy and the IRS

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