Tax day has come and gone

A few thoughts:

I wonder how many people go to confession after tax day.
I wonder how many people should.

Did the taxes, plus had a family birthday to celebrate. Nice contrast of spending money you don't have.

Actually I will say in my dealings with the actual people of the IRS I have always been treated well. Sometimes we can forget that there are people that work for the IRS and they are willing to help so don't be afraid to ask for anything reasonable.

And for taxes we forget it is not just income tax that eats us up. There are way too many fee taxes, secondary taxes etc that drop off our radar screen. So would it be better to have one tax rate for everything or do you prefer to be nickel and dimed to death. And the actual tax forms are too complicated. You should be able to fill out all the forms you need to get all your deductions with a reasonable amount of effort. The forms are skewed to where you have to pay for help. I think this is something that needs to be addressed. A person with reasonable capabilities should be able to do their own taxes and get all the deductions that are available to them. The difficulty of filling out the forms a sideways version of cheating you out of your money. This isn't the IRS, this is lobbyists forcing our legislators to write laws that benefit them. Or you could even say indirect taxation without representation.

Beautiful spring day here in Texas, too bad ruined by events in Boston. Our prayers go out to the families of the victims and for the recovery of the injured