Old Joke
February 17th, 2007 | by Craig |
SIMPLIFIED 1040
1.) How much money did you make last year: $_______________
2.) Send it in.
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7 Responses to “Old Joke”
By Kirk Dooley on Feb 17, 2007 | Reply
A well-dressed man is walking down the street in DC when he is accosted by a man with a pistol. The robber shouts, “Give me all your money!!!”
The victim says, “How dare you? I’ll have you know that I am a member of the United States Senate.”
The robber thinks this over, and then says, “All right, then give me all my money!!!”
By Mark Tokarski on Feb 18, 2007 | Reply
Not to be analytical in a joke thread, but one of the reasons the tax code is so complicated was a bill passed in 1986 called the Tax Reform Act of 1986, whose object was to simplify the tax code. That’s when it really got mucky.
By Craig on Feb 18, 2007 | Reply
I bet you’re a hoot at parties, Mark.
The odds of getting any kind of meaningful tax reform are darn near nil, anyway. There’s too much money in keeping it complicated.
By Mark Tokarski on Feb 18, 2007 | Reply
I am not a hoot at parties. I’m an accountant, fer Chrissakes.
By Craig on Feb 18, 2007 | Reply
But you do know a good setup when you see it.
By Shane C. Mason on Feb 20, 2007 | Reply
Flat tax with a lower cap of around 30K.
w00t!
By Gman on Feb 23, 2007 | Reply
Too many interest groups — even business groups — benefit far too much from tax code complexity for it ever to be changed. If you simplify the law, you make it too easy for the average person to understand it. That’s would put a lot of rather well-to-do folks out of business. Gov’t regulations and laws often line the pockets of the powerful at the expense of the powerless. Ya, I sound like a liberal, but my view is more libertarian than liberal. Business should not be able to live off of gov’t largesse.