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Tax Time!
All the guidance says you should seek to grow and diversify your savings. Unless, of course, you are content earning a whopping 0.04% interest on a 9-mth CD at BofA (minimum balance just $5000 - aren't they sweet?). So the spousal unit and I have an international mutual fund that happens to pay some foreign tax.
During this year's TurboTax festivities, we somehow got lost deep in the weeds right away:
And that's the simple TurboTax version of just one question in our increasingly arcane U.S. Federal Tax Code (6500 pages and growing).
Proposed new U.S. Federal: Personal Tax Card
- Starts Fresh - politicians don't have the intestinal fortitude to withstand the lobbying/electioneering pressure that would ensue if the current tax code were reformed; the weeds are rampant and the whole yard needs to be turned over to fresh dirt. Then we can start adding a select few worthy deductions back in.
- No Loops, No Holes - just a socialistic dependents calculation to raise the floor
- Everybody Pays Something - that way, rich or poor, you are invested in your government (and have an inherent right to kvetch)
- Built-in Annual Survey Tool
- ACA - the Administration told us it wasn't a tax, so it's not on here...
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Motivating the students:
And, really, isn't that what it's all about?
Teaching the kids new things and getting their grades up?
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Solving a Problem that Doesn't Exist
What's with all the new "bathroom bills"?
Since when was it against the law for someone to go in the "wrong" bathroom?
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| "Gender be damned, we've got a bathroom emergency. Come on sister!" |
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| Or maybe she's just meeting a friend... |
I think we could all use a little less government in the bathroom as well as the bedroom.
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