Tax Reform Anyone?

Like a carp at feeding time

I like to keep a picture of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid on my desk as I go about the ever increasing nonsense required to pay the dues for living in what used to be a pretty cool country.  It becomes more difficult with each passing year.

Beginning in January when the first 1099s, W-2s and K-1s get dropped like live hand grenades by mailman Russ, I struggle to keep my temper as I prepare for the first meeting with Bob the tax guy.  These days it takes someone like Bob, both a lawyer and accountant, to decipher the myriad of changes and tweaks in our ever more complex tax code.  Like mob protection in a bad neighborhood, it is entirely necessary to pay this toll if you want to keep walking on two good legs.  SEND US YOUR MONEY, OR ELSE!


It would be tolerable if only the morons running the show in Washington didn't insist on behaving like the drunk at the end of the bar.  You know, the guy who in spite of the fact he has no money and is no longer allowed to run a tab insists on buying a round "for everyone".  It's easy to get re-elected when you promise to give your constituents all they desire and then do it with their own money.  The only problem is they have run out of money....yours, mine, China's....EVERBODY'S!  The United States congress has managed to accomplish the heretofore unimaginable feat of presiding over the world's only money LOSING whorehouse.  What's more is that the house is on fire and all the working gals have given notice, and they still don't get it.

Our country is broke.  Even if the government took every penny away from all the folks they consider "rich", (and they have a very low threshold of rich),  America would still be IN THE HOLE.  For those with political aspirations, that would be BEYOND BROKE.

Village Idiot

The solution?  A flat tax for ALL and a complete change of management in D.C.  No more professional politicians!  Term limits for everyone and no exemptions from programs required for other Americans.  (See social security and the odious medicare.)  I propose three tax brackets: 10, 15, and 20 percent, with NO exemptions for ANYTHING.  That would put an end to most Washington lobbying and would insure that all citizens have some skin in the game.  When it truly is everyone's money, we'll see more attention being paid to how it is spent.

Of course my plan will send tax preparation gurus like bean counter Bob to the unemployment office, but he'll be able to take all that loot he has made from clueless clowns like me to his hideout in the South Pacific.  Maybe he has a plan involving some of those unfortunate out of work ladies from our nation's capital?