Penni, I don't have to tell you MJ is smart, much smarter and more capable than I, and the IRS infuriates her. Precisely because she's smart and capable. She spends her life teaching seventh and eighth graders to produce clear work that gets understood. That is her Main Goal in Life. Teaching Communication and Research skills.
She reads me a sentence and then says, "This is unacceptable to me." (As a seventh-eighth grade teacher.) "I'm a college educated professional and this does not make any sense to me. It's not good enough." Amen, mon.
Just like going to school under a bad teacher, WE have to try to figure out what they want. And why we are similar to a fishing boat, but not an oil well, except under rules in document 565.
It's her plan that ALL THE RULES must be contained in the one booklet, and it must be under a hundred pages, better 50 or 20, in length. Period.
Imagine if the IRS was a service business with customers. They would be replaced immediately.
I'm not sure we shouldn't let machines take care of direct taxation in some way. But I don't know. I just know I have the urge to leave the country. I don't mind paying taxes, either. Nor think they're really too high; altho I hate waste.
But I would have little sympathy, I'm serious, if someone went postal in the IRS Code Office, and killed them all.
They're on my Serious Shit List.
I want their stupidity out of our life.
We should find out what civilized nations do. |
