Well, it’s that dreaded time of the year again for all American Taxpayers who have procrastinated long enough to find themselves scrambling for those “important tax documents,” and receipts so they can file their returns before the deadline. April 15th drapes itself over the tax procrastinator like a black thundercloud blotting out everything but a constant feeling of anxiety and despair. We, unlike the bean counting, early e-filing, and fast refund receivers are still sweating it out to the very last second before the clock strikes midnight. We are hopelessly deciding if filing for the automatic extension is worth ruining a perfectly good summer of unemployment.
Normally I am among the last to file every year for no other reasons than most who hate monotonous numerical computations, reading complicated tax laws, rules and regulations while perusing over w-2 forms, 1099’s and all that other mind-boggling tax code mumbo-jumbo. With no excuse other than this sh*t sucks and I just don’t want to do it, I know in my heart it has to be done and it has to be done now, or else. So in the end, I will do it and will do it on time to avoid that or else stuff.
But this year is different somehow; I think I waited too long this time, because it gave me a chance to contemplate how my fair share is being used by those we place in charge of spending and dispersing our tax dollars. When I think about how the congress has under performed over the last two maybe three decades and in many instances created far more problems than they solved, it makes the effort in filing one’s returns less palatable. If we take into account how Congress and the country’s political leadership has failed to provide adequate healthcare for its workers and citizens, how it failed to adequately educate it’s youth, how it failed to secure the nation’s borders, how it failed to protect the nation’s economy, how it failed to safeguard the boomer’s retirement and their children’s futures, it makes one wonder have we've gotten any value for our tax dollars.
Sure each Senator will run back to their states and House Members will hustle back to their districts and tout the trinkets of pork they brought home to help their constituents but as a collective body, they have fu*ked this country up beyond repair. When we look back over the last ten years and recap the way this Congress has performed, we see little if any value this group of asses has contributed to the country’s betterment. In just the last six months alone, we’ve seen Congress vote to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to solve problems they themselves were fundamentally responsible for creating through criminally negligent legislation and blind oversight.
No, this year is much more difficult to send that check to a government so inept that we know the money is going into some black hole never to be seen again; nor even an adequate explanation as to what good it did. The only thing we have gotten for our hard earned tax dollars is the right to bitch and complain. For those that don’t pay their taxes or participate in the political process by voting, they can go to hell, but for those who do, at least we can bitch. It may be a small consolation but there is value in the process. The more money we let the government have to fu*k over, the more the government gives us to bitch about. And if history is any indicator, we are going to be bitching for a long time. Click here for the podcast. http://retrovisionmedia.com/...