by Donald Jeffries, ”I Protest”:
I’m writing this at Eastertime, so Happy Easter to all of you. The Resurrection of our Lord is the cornerstone of our Christian faith. It is also the time of renewal, when the birds return from the south, and the plants and flowers bloom gloriously. The weather warms up, and the miracle of life is on display everywhere.
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But it’s also a time when we are reminded, with a figurative blow to the head, that we must submit to the tyrants who misrule us at every level. If you don’t file your taxes, the IRS may be coming for you. You know, the agency that Trump talked about abolishing last year. Right around the same time he suggested that we may not need any more taxes. Right about the time he proposed that no one making less than $250,000 pay taxes. I liked that Trumpenstein a lot better than the delirious warmonger we have now. Trump promised to get rid of taxes on tips. And overtime. And important from my perspective, on Social Security. Thanks to “anti-tax” legend Ronald Reagan, the elderly began paying taxes on their Social Security payments in the 1980s, if they had more than a token amount of other income. Of course, this was the definition of a double tax, since those monthly payments are simply returning in increments your money that was involuntarily withheld from you as an employee.
I wasn’t really surprised to find that Trump had lied bigly about how his new $6,000 deduction for those over 65, amounted to the same thing as eliminating Social Security taxes. Which he promised to do. Of course, that didn’t prove to be the case. Our additional $12,000 in deductions had virtually no impact on our statement at all. I still owed taxes on about 85% of my Social Security income. Overall, we paid about $200 less than last year. Before the big and beautiful tax deduction for oldsters. That’s the way the rotten system always works- it never benefits the people. It’s a render onto Caesar thing, you wouldn’t understand. And the tax preparer asked us if we had any tips or overtime income. Hmm. I thought it was reported that Trumpenstein actually did eliminate taxes on those. So why did they ask us that, then? I hated the process of filing taxes even when I used to get a refund. It’s unbearable when you know you’re going to be paying. As if the taxes paid all year weren’t already more than enough.
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