Something. Is. Fucked. Up. In. This. Country.
They may be a rant more than anything, but I have to vent somewhere and I thank you for allowing it.
After nearly a year of looking for work, I'm still unemployed. UI doesn't amount to much, but it is just enough to get by here in LA. And then, last night, I finished my taxes. I nearly wept.
I guess I believed the hype of the GOP that the poor pay zero taxes. Perhaps that's why I was in such shock to discover a $1000+ bill staring at me in red numbers on the online form. That is a number that I cannot afford. Period. But don't worry, I'll figure it out. I'm not here for your pity...I'm here for your anger at the unjustness of it.
What pisses me off, what makes me stand from my desk and pace around in abject frustration, is the fact that corporations like GE, Cheveron and others pay ZERO taxes. In fact, they received hundreds of millions, even billions, in tax kickbacks.
WTF? This is the country we want? Really? Where the poor, the middle-class, and the unemployed have their tax dollars laundered through the government to these dead beat corporations? Where an unemployed person pays more in taxes than a multi-billion dollar corporation?
Fuck me.
/rant off
Updated by JWK at Thu Apr 14, 2011 at 06:09 AM PDT
First time on rec list. Woot. Wish it were under better circumstances, but this acknowledgement by the community has made my day. Thanks!