Tax Day Came and Went…
… and what do we have to show for?
As we all know April 15, 2010 came and went. I used Turbo Tax to generate and file electronically my return for the past year. It appears, each time it gets more confusing; what is going on? This is a panacea for politicians to get from Naïve Americans as much as they can to pay for their lavish life styles while helping curtail the tax burden of their political supporters.
There is so much Naïve Americans can and will take. I am not associated with the Tea Party movement, but my tip of the hat. Naïve Americans need to promote CHANGE in as many fronts as possible in order to slow down the fall of the United States of America.
I was reading a short article in the April 10th edition of The Economist titled “The Joy of Tax”. It is interesting to note that the federal code tax in 1913 was about 400 pages long. Can you imagine fully understanding 400 pages of tax code, which are completely arbitrary in the sense they do not follow any logical or physical model? Well, things just started to get worse from that point on. Today the same document is about 70,000 pages long. An average textbook contains about 500 pages. Then in average to be proficient in tax law one needs to be proficient in about 140 books. Most Naïve Americans have never read 140 books! Very few have read 140 textbooks. This fact tends to illustrate the complexity of taxes in the USA.
The main questions should be, why are taxes so complicated? The simple and correct answer is to benefit special interest groups. Our federal government could do with no more than 10% of the taxes we Naïve Americans pay if our government would cut waste. Of course this will not happen because special interests pay (contribute, the proper corrupt term we now use) politicians and they have to answer to them.
The article also mentions an interesting statistic. It takes about 3.8 million skilled workers tiling full-time, year-round to handle the paperwork and electronic forms associated with paying taxes. Some Naïve Americans (mostly democrats) are of the opinion that this is good because it employs people. The problem is that there is no beneficial end result to the economy of the USA. What type of desirable goods or services does people involved in taxes have to offer to the world economy? NONE. It is just a waste of time and money that could be used to promote small businesses to create skilled jobs to develop / produce / manufacture desirable goods and services.
As I always say, one should NEVER generalize. Not all (but most) politicians are a problem. Ron Paul (R-TX) wants to eliminate the IRS. Any Naïve American with some degree of intelligence should agree with such measure. Take the 3.8 million skilled workers wasting their time working on taxes a year. Lets assume that each skilled worker gets paid $60,000 a year. If this is the case, then one needs to add about half of that salary in benefits and other associated costs (i.e., office space, telephone, etc). We now have $90,000 per individual multiplied by 3,800,000 workers, which equates to 342,000 million dollars a year. The estimated population of the state of Oregon in 2009 was around 3.8 million, which included seniors, adults and children. Imagine if all that population was working year round in tax related jobs for the IRS. What a waste of TIME and MONEY!
As the United States of America continues in the downwards spiral, hopefully more and more Naïve Americans will decide to elect those few politicians that may induce a POSITIVE CHANGE for our country.
