I have just as many kids as Mary Beth. But because I made $10,000 more than Mary Beth...some of which went to Mary Beth for food, medical care and child care I still wind up owing dear ole Uncle while Mary Beth saves her last pay stub from 2009....sprints to the nearest Speedee Tax....electronically files her return and wakes up in less than 48 hours with over $6,000 in her bank account. Hell, I've even heard some people have received close to $10,000....and for what....not working, not making a certain amount. Sounds like the perfect incentive to keep people in poverty - it friggin' pays!
Flip the coin and then you have the Thurston Howell the thirds. These guys make millions. However, because of the ability to form their own foundations, organizations, and charities and yada yada yadas...they're able to write off thousands and thousands...if not millions of dollars.
I have no doubt that I'm looking at it from a very biased perspective. I don't profess to know all the ins and outs about taxes, tax codes, deductions, and earned income credit.
All I know is there's something not quite right about our current way of doing things. How can Bush, Obama and any other POTUS past or present bailout WALL STREET and send me a notice threatening to levy shit that I don't even own if I don't pay them $12,000....which by the way started out around $6,000 but because of penalties and interests....just keeps growing and growing and growing and growing.
Sometimes I really think it would have been a whole lot easier to have not wasted the time to get a good education in hopes of securing a good job.
I could be sitting at home in a $750/month apartment...(my section 8 package could pay $600 of that), receiving free health care (paid for by folks like me), waiting on the first of the month....that is still check day isn't it?
......seems to me like more than just health care needs reforming around here!!!!!!!!!!!!
