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Carol H Tucker
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IMNSHO, FWIIW
Today is the 19th day of the 4th month and the 110th day of 2016. Searching on April 19th will also pull up information on a town in Uruguay [19 de Abril] and an Indian film. Today is also:
- Bicycle Day
- Education & Sharing Day
- Humorous Day
- John Parker Day – actually it is the anniversary of the Battle of Concord and Lexington 241 years ago today
- National Amaretto Day
- National Garlic Day ((take that you twinkly vampires!))
- National Hanging Out Day – nope it doesn’t mean getting together with your buddies, it is a day to eschew the dryer and hang your was outside to dry. While I agree that nothing smells better than sheets and towels when you take them down, on rainy days when you had to hang them in the basement, they smelled dank. No one who ever did laundry before dryers became standard household appliances would ever go back to doing this all the time!
- National Stress Awareness Day
- National Wear Your Pajamas To Work Day – always the day after income tax day here in the US. Wearing a barrel might be more appropriate….
- Oklahoma City Bombing Commemoration Day – 21 years ago and you certainly cannot blame Muslims or immigrants for this home-grown act of violence that killed 168 people with a truck bomb.
In 65 the Roman Emperor Nero was not assassinated because one of the conspirators blabbed and all of them were arrested instead. ((how often does something that doesn’t happen make the historical records?)). If you want to know who was born on this day [or any given day really] I suggest looking here. If you want to know who died today, you are on your own.
So yesterday was the day the US income taxes were due. If you can’t get your form filled out in time, you can request an extension – but you have to accompany that request with an estimated payment if you think that you owe Uncle Sam money. It is a sore point with many people because there is a growing feeling that the richest Americans as well as corporations are not paying their fair share of financing the federal government. In my role in Loan Servicing through the years, even at the community bank level I have seen folks who make as much in a day as I do in a year – but they pay much lower taxes than I do both in percentage of their income. Now I will admit that the dollar amount that comes out of their pockets throughout the year may actually exceed the cash that I have to put out as cash on the barrelhead, but I will add that is not always a fact either. In any case, there is little doubt in my mind that someone who makes $1M has a lot more in disposable income after they pay taxes – and I do not begrudge them that. What I resent is that they have managed to convince the powers that be that “trickledown economics” is a real and viable way to run a society and that they are entitled to grow their personal wealth while leaving the funding of government on the backs of those who make too little to hire a troupe of accountants and lawyers to protect their assets.
IMNSHO: There are just too many loopholes in the existing code and it actually encourages duplicity. I have long been a proponent of a flat tax. In my vision, everyone who makes over $25K a year – working, retired, organizations, corporations, et al – would simply pay 20% of their gross income to the feds and 5% to the states. . And in this scenario, income is income, whether it comes from wages, investments, inheritance, trusts, or sales. You live here, you work here, you do business here, you pay. PERIOD. No deductions, no exemptions, no exceptions. And all those tax accountants and lawyers go find other work to do.
And if you make less than $25K? The government pays you. So I guess that I am also an advocate for a guaranteed income. And while I am at it? I think healthcare providers and insurers should be at least not-for-profit if not non-profits because I think that good healthcare is a right not a privilege. And if that is the dreaded specter of socialism? Then bring it!
And this just made me chortle today:
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