Chrsitmas Craziness (income, education, taxes)

[TheComputerGuy]

Originally Posted by colleeng47

Loved that story ----- even though I kept looking over my shoulder to make sure no one could see me reading something that might offend them.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you'd worry about offending the "PC folk" about as much as I would.

The only difference is that you're in the right place to do it.

M.

[colleeng47]

Originally Posted by TheComputerGuy

WOW! I though MA was bad.... (And it was, but NJ seems to take the cake!)

It must be awful to have to walk on eggshells all day...
I couldn't do it any longer, so I left MA and I shut my mouth at work these days.
(I just smile and remind myself that I'm making more than a dollar a minute here.)

You poor kid... You'll get more out of OK than even we will.
Godspeed!

M.

Well, luckily I now work in the e-mail unit where we don't talk at all. Just type responses to nitwit taxpayers all day.

[TheComputerGuy]

Originally Posted by colleeng47

Well, luckily I now work in the e-mail unit where we don't talk at all. Just type responses to nitwit taxpayers all day.

HEY!!! Wait a minute... I'm a nitwit taxpayer!

M.

[colleeng47]

Originally Posted by TheComputerGuy

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you'd worry about offending the "PC folk" about as much as I would.

The only difference is that you're in the right place to do it.

M.

I make my point by boycotting. I'm not attending the "Winter Event".

[TheComputerGuy]

Originally Posted by colleeng47

I make my point by boycotting. I'm not attending the "Winter Event".

But where else will you get to wear a "Genuine" Druid suit?

M.

[colleeng47]

Originally Posted by TheComputerGuy

HEY!!! Wait a minute... I'm a nitwit taxpayer!

M.

You have no clue what I mean by nitwit taxpayers. It's scary. The people on this forum are all literate and express themselves well. It's such a relief to me after reading convoluted, involved, completely not understandable questions all day long.

[LadyRobyn]

Originally Posted by colleeng47

You have no clue what I mean by nitwit taxpayers. It's scary. The people on this forum are all literate and express themselves well. It's such a relief to me after reading convoluted, involved, completely not understandable questions all day long.

*giggles* My Late Mother-in-Law retired from the IRS... Oh! the stories she would tell!

[peggydavis]

I caught the guys from Dean's hauling in a humongous cedar tree they cut down.



That is one big cedar. They are really a pest tree we are trying to eradicate, so they are doing a double good deed.



They have it up and are admiring their work. Tomorrow I wonder if they will decorate it.

[TheComputerGuy]

Originally Posted by colleeng47

You have no clue what I mean by nitwit taxpayers. It's scary. The people on this forum are all literate and express themselves well. It's such a relief to me after reading convoluted, involved, completely not understandable questions all day long.

I understand.

I've seem PLENTY of badly done e-mails and peoples' posts...
It like some kind of secret code.

If you're complaining about their inability to express coherent thoughts in text, that's OK... It never ceases to amaze me how with all the money we spend on education, how downright illiterate the general population appears to be...
(Believe me, I wouldn't be here if I had to decipher all the posts.)

But... If they're nitwits because the tax code makes no sense to them, well I'd have to be considered a nitwit also.

I remember the first time or 2 that I looked at the income tax forms and my eyes crossed... I pay someone to do that for me.

I'd hate to go to jail because I made a mistake in adding LINE 7 to the square root of LINE 6 and diving that total, by the amount of stars in the sky on Tuesday, then multiplying 18% of that total for LINE 9, then adding LINES 7 through 10 and dividing it all by Green....

M.

[Synopsis]

I gave up on doing my own taxes years ago. I'm a very literal person and when I read some of those questions on the IRS forms I end up going in circles. Just earlier this year I ended up having to send in 1200 dollars in "extra" taxes that weren't mentioned on my 2005 return. And I had to pay interest to boot! It didn't matter that I never received a W2 from the employer I worked for at the time. I was a contractor and worked at least five jobs that year.