Taxes? Schmaxes. Right.

I finished my city income taxes at around 10:38 today.
Not without much violent cursing, regrettably.
Now that it's over, I can be sightly amused at my pathetic behavior.

After all, I was sitting in my partner's office while filing.
I'm sure the staff was entertained.

Our city taxes are at: 1.6! 1.6! What's yours?
And I have to pay at the U's City as well.
Our state taxes--I can't--even--compose a strong enough metaphor . . . all social services cut, income and sells taxes raised--are we at war or something???
Our federal taxes: we "slipped between the cracks" this year over, like, 300.00 or something. Maybe I should have some kids? 3-4? Does it matter after 2?

News for today:
By MARY DALRYMPLE, AP Tax Writer

People scurrying to meet tonight's tax deadline might consider this: It's taking you and your fellow Americans 6.6 billion hours to do all that paperwork. The basic tax return — the Form 1040 filed by most people every year — accounts for 1.6 billion hours.

The Internal Revenue Service furnished those statistics to the White House budget office, which keeps tabs on the government's bureaucratic demands. The budget office notes that tax work "towers over the entire paperwork burden for the rest of the federal government" and accounts for some 80 percent.

"If anything, those numbers are probably understated," said David Keating, president of the National Taxpayers Union, which reports annually on the increasing complexity and demands of tax returns.

"A lot more of the cost is just planning to do the tax-smart thing. That can actually take a lot more time than reporting what you've done," he said.

Tax returns must be postmarked by midnight tonight [or the IRA claims your balls].

We could build a better government in that time.