Spent most of the day working through my tax returns… sigh.
Yes, I do my own. Yes, I use the big name software package. Yes, I try to end the year owing a bit, as it galls me to think they would take my money away, then give it back. What kind of a silly joke is that? Yes, I didn’t cut it close enough this time, and I could buy a very nice MBR with the two checks I just wrote… sigh.
And, yes, it’s my own fault for letting the software just zoom right into the State Taxes module.
Hint to the Big Tax Software Company: how about in between the Federal and the State modules, you write a little routine that does this
Congratulations! You’ve completed 2007 Tax Return Level 1 - Attack of the Federal Spend-bots.
We’ve noticed an old copy of DOOM on your harddrive. Before you move to 2007 Tax Return Level 2 - Zombie Local Tax-bots, why not take a few moments to relax?
Click Here to play
I know, wishful thinking, and something I could really do myself. A little shoot’em up might be a welcome break. But no, I didn’t think of it and rushed right into the thrill of State Income Taxes. Oh well, My score was pretty good… I had to pay, so that means this capitalism thing works and I made something! Yahoo! And the church got more of it than the Feds or the State did, so that’s good.
Have you ever noticed, if you pull the space out of the post title, it spells “theirs”. No. It’s MINE! It’s the price I pay for freedom. Now, one of these days we’re going to have a little chat about how you’re spending it.

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