Rat Bastads

Ok, I'm trying to live the OC dream, not because I have some kind of "I'm
> > better than you" attitude. Here is where my kids and grandkids are. Here
> > is warmer than the Pacific Northwest where the horses, cats, pine, cedar,
> > and alder trees, chickens, weeds, and mold give my lovely and talented
> > Dorothy agony. Here is where rich people buy expensive things, like fast,
> > fancy cars, and where, if you sell that stuff, you should be able live quite
> > comfortably.
> >
> > Well, excuse me for complaining, but it turns out I am one of America's
> > rich. I can't afford a house here, so I rent. I can't afford a nice car,
> > so I ride a Harley (my gas bill was $35 last month) to work, the wife an old
> > Mountaineer (just in case she needs to pick up the kids from school). I
> > don't charge anything so I have no credit card debt.
> >
> > But the cost of living here is a bitch. Our goal was to add enough to the
> > IRA to keep from having to add money to the tax withholding the two
> > socialist, money grubbing, spendthrift, tax wasting shit eating GOVERNMENT
> > bastards take from me every year.
> >
> > It didn't happen. To keep from using our credit cards, we had to spend
> > all our money just to live.
> >
> > Today, I had my taxes done. I made less money than last year, but the
> > government wants more. Last year, I was able to pay them and still have
> > some money left in savings.
> >
> > This year, they want more than I have in savings.
> >
> > That's right, to pay my taxes, I have to go in debt. I don't have enough
> > deductions to itemize, so I have to pay the ATM, the flat tax for all of you
> > who think the Fair Tax is a bad idea. And it is $6,000 more than the
> > government forced to give them as a tax free loan last year. Between last
> > year's burden and this year's burden, the government has busted me. Oh, and
> > I made too much to qualify for the rebate.
> >
> > I am here to testify, brothers and sisters, that I totally understand why
> > people take up arms against their governments.
> >
> > I am one pissed off tax payer.