[davidboyd] Cool Papa Boyd: Should thirty-five per cent appear too small, be thankful I don't take it all

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Posted by Cool Papa Boyd:
Should thirty-five per cent appear too small, be thankful I don't take it all
http://davidboyd.org/posts/1172148794.shtml


   I've done my own taxes all my life as a protest against the
   government. I figure that in America, a reasonably intelligent person
   ought to be able to follow some bureaucrat's instructions to determine
   what the politicians think they are entitled to of one's earnings.
   Plus, I get to seethe for four hours every February or March as I
   marvel at the complexity the people of this country allow their
   politicians to create and foist upon them.
   However, I broke down this year. I bought [1]Turbo Tax. It is as easy
   as they say. It is intuitive and simple. And that is the problem. It
   is too simple. It is too easy.
   There are two things that would lead to immediate and sensible tax
   reform in this country. First, everyone should be required to do their
   own taxes without assistance. They should be ushered to a gray IRS
   cubicle with decades old office furniture in some ugly office park
   somewhere and left there until the task is done. Second, and more
   importantly, withholding should be scrapped. If the people received
   all the money they earned and then had to write a check to the
   government each month, demands for accountability would increase a
   thousand-fold.

References

   1. http://turbotax.intuit.com/