It\u2019s a Paine to say it, but these are the times that tax men\u2019s souls. (Women\u2019s too.)<\/p>\n
What this country needs is more affordability in the purchase, care \u00a0and maintenance of members of Congress. I am but a handful of percentage points from billionaire Charles Koch\u2019s tax bracket. If that isn\u2019t the ultimate in horse pucky, I\u2019ll be Go-To-Hell.<\/p>\n
Perhaps we need to pool money; buy a Solon or two. I\u2019ll volunteer as the bagman. I\u2019m just shooting spit wads here. Big bidness done bought them up. The pharmaceutical guys bought the best, if not the brightest, which is why the news on NBC, ABC and CBS is saturated with drug commercials for every malady known to humankind, and then some. Some of those maladies are plenty exotic and make you wonder what came first, the disease or the cure?<\/p>\n
Oddly enough in these taxing times, doing my taxes this year has been like being keel hauled by Captain Bligh. I wish I could say my absence from da blog was because I have been on a trip \u2014 someplace exotic like the stockyard at Stanfield or the casino at Why or a Toltec truck stop. But I have been chained to TurboTax, which this year has been the worst version ever. The Terror of the Return was like HAL telling Keir Dullea\u2019s character, \u201cI\u2019m sorry, Dave, but I can\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
I shall scour the ends of the Earth for an alternative next year. This year\u2019s software has been as hinky and annoying as George W. Bush\u2019s smirk.<\/p>\n
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