I'm A MOOCHER!

~or~ Thanks Everybody!

Specifically, thanks to my boss and all the other evil, disgusting, filthy, rich people out there. Im fairly certain that this would qualify me as a Moocher, according to Neal Boortz.

When it came time to e-file (free online Intuit TurboTax madd props!) the bottom line was several thousands of dollars coming back to me. That would be, several thousands including a couple thousand I didn't send to the Treasury in the first place. The net result for my household last year is that we paid less than zero federal taxes and only around a thousand dollars in State taxes.

We still don't get to say where the money that's supposed to go to our childrens' educations goes, but at least the thousands of dollars we paid for local school taxes were refunded to us. We are effectively not paying school taxes, due to our 'refund' from the federal taxpayers of our state taxes, in an amount that allows us to buy the materials required to school our children. Cold comfort indeed.

Note that The Fair Tax eliminates all of this chicanery. There would be ZERO forms to fill out. NO filing, e- or otherwise. NO waiting for refund checks. You get a "PREbate" under the Fair Tax. People (like us) who are on the low-end of the pay scales would basically pay no tax still. People who buy lots of flashy stuff would still pay lots of flashy taxes. Aside from politicians' unbridled lust for sheer power over the lives of men, I can see no reason why The Fair Tax is not already law in the USA, today.