Here is a simple, easy article entitled, “What You Need to Know about Taxes for 2015.” It is only about three pages long, with only about thirty hyperlinks to government instruction manuals and easy reads like www.IRS.gov and www.healthcare.gov/taxes. It doesn’t mention taxes in the old sense, just ObamaCare.
To reiterate, when I was a wee child, history courses on Ancient Rome would discuss early notions of citizenship, one of which was having the laws of one’s nation written upon one’s heart. I think it’s a good idea, and we should exile anybody who cannot recite the entire tax code and provide secret tax shoppers with the exact excerpts needed for any given scenario.
Until then, since my reading skills are so deplorable, I’m wondering how many days I need to take off work to do my taxes this year. Let’s see, four months of income go to pay taxes, another month without pay goes to figure out taxes, and then another month goes to service the debt on the loan taken out to cover the month without wages. It’s good our modern economy doesn’t rely on old, stodgy notions like productivity of essentials and comforts – not of paperwork, jobs for bureaucrats, room nights, and imaginary exponential multipliers.
