Beware The Ides Of April....

Tax day folks! Can I get a "Hell Yeah!"? This year, as a single father paying $1036 per month in child support for two children, filing single with no dependants (because my ex wife won't allow me to claim the kids), I paid approximately $3000 in federal withholding tax. Of this $3000, Uncle Sam says I overpaid by $268, which he KINDLY held on to for me, interest free, all year.  This $268 is going to go to my ex wife, as I fell behind on my child support during a period of unemployment in 2010.  I have no real issue there....at least I don't OWE anything, and it'll help with my arrearage.  What I do take issue with is this....last year, my ex girlfriend, as a single mother with one child, paid approximately $800 in federal withholding tax.  She filed head of household (for which she did not exactly qualify) and got back $3900.  Which was good....I suppose....because at least I know where the rest of my taxes went.  And some of yours, too, most likely.  Sure, I can see giving Ceasar his due, but when is Ceasar gonna figure out that no matter how hard you squeeze, you can't get blood from a middle class turnip, and pretty soon, the turnip is gonna grow a set of teeth and bite him on the ass?  What right does he have to use the IRS to take it, basically at gunpoint?
It can end...go to FairTax.org to find out how.

What Right....

does any man have to take what someone has earned and give it to someone who has not? None. Giving voluntarily is one thing...having it taken at the point of a gun is quite another.  Our taxes are taken at the point of a gun....they didn't used to be, although there probably aren't many still alive that remember that. Why do we tolerate this? Is it simply that we get so used to the beating we barely feel it when the lashes get harder? FairTax....check it out.

I Dream Of A Day...

when the chicken can cross the road without its motives being questioned, its questions being motived, or being followed by a drone. And if we can achieve that kind of freedom for chickens, just think what could be accomplished for people. :)

Have You Ever...

been in a situation where lying gets you in trouble and telling the truth seems to get you in deeper, but doing nothing at all leaves you stuck in a rut? Why does life often seem to turn out this way? Or am I the only one this has happened to? For the most part, I tell the truth, although I have been known to lie to get my ass out of a sling. It never seemed to work out...the truth always came out in the end. But nowadays, even the way I present myself to others is a bit of a lie...I used to be a pretty happy go lucky, live and let live kind of person. Yet lately, the powers that be have seen fit to ensure that I don't feel that way anymore...yet still I try to act as if nothing is wrong. Yet nothing could be further from the truth...I go to work lately almost for the sole purpose of being able to afford to go to work....I can't see my kids nearly as often as I'd like to....and I'm struggling with things that, while they may have started with the tiniest grain of truth have gotten blown out of proportion in my mind. And I've found myself in a situation where I'm unalble to really talk to anyone about it...so I thought I'd put this out there and maybe see if anyone else is going through a similar situation. And it lets me blow off a little steam.