Thursday, May 23, 2024

I saw this idea posted on a forum once

 The Government already knows how much we owe in taxes or how much they owe back to us.  They have our numbers on file.  How much we paid in state and federal etc.  They pretty much know everything about us already.  Why not just send out letters or notices stating how much we owe or how much they owe us?  If you disagree then fill out a tax form and do the work yourself and send it in.  Why do we even need this behemoth of a tax preparation industry?  Let the government do the work.  They have the computers and the information and now we have ai.  Crunch the numbers and everybody else can get back their lost quality time.

71 comments:

  1. Capitalism. A large number of CPAs work on taxes. One of the planks in the Idaho GOP platform is to privatize Social Security. But you have to pay Wells Fargo. We have a dozen big banks in town, but the SS office is a tiny place with about 6 people working. Idaho enacted a strict law on libraries: any librarian is subject to jail and find if some kid sneaks in and finds a salacious book. Town down south made their library 'adults only'. They get a few adults, but all the after school and Summer programs for little kids have been cancelled. In the age of internet smut, what kid would go to the library looking for sexual amusement? Huh?

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  2. Yup. If CPAs didn't do people's taxes what would they do with their time estate planning? Idaho sounds like some backwaters place then there is the Doomsday Prophet murder trial starring the Daybells. Great potatoes though.

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  3. We also have the long drawn-out Kohlberg case
    https://www.today.com/news/bryan-kohberger-idaho-murder-trial-rcna63789 He has Trump style defenders and faces the death penalty. The judge hearing the case is Judge John C. Judge.
    Which should give him a lot of judgment? I thought potatoes came
    from Maine.

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  4. They say if you have ten different accountants do your taxes you'll get ten different returns.

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  5. The conservative philosophy - It's better to have astronomical medical bills. At least it ain't socialism. Needs work.

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  6. So if I understand the library situation in Idaho correctly we're not talking about children's libraries or even HS libraries but general public libraries open to adults. Where are they gonna put all the Judith Krantz and Sidney Sheldon books? Meanwhile the kids are getting free sex ed on PornHub.

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  7. Correct. Disney is also suspect (even though Mrs. Disney was born near here.

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  8. Knew a lady whose husband mowed the church lown. For free, of course. But she wrote off his labor on the 1040 as $100 a week, Another guy had a parrot that aimed birdpoop every where and shouted profanities. He sent it to a zoo and wrote of the loss as $950. I can only imagine what the tax lawyers of the too well off do.

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  9. I saw on my email just now a plethora of BB comments. Give me time.

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  10. The Idaho library issue has been adjudicated through the courts?

    Whatever happened to Ammon Bundy?

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  11. Still running loose, enjoying the fun life of being a professional trouble maker.

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  12. What was his thing again?

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  13. Wikiepedia covers it with 154 valid references. Probably the Tiny Tim of the Far Right?

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  14. Did a quick Google. Probably not well-known outside of the potato state. Could pass for a country singer. On FB Instagram and X.

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  15. Have you heard about this?
    https://time.com/6981999/carlo-acutis-teenager-to-become-first-millennial-saint-vatican/ Comment?

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  16. That is interesting BB. I haven't kept up on my saints lately. Probably never took out salacious books from the library.

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  17. Upon further pondering here was a religiously minded youth who designed his church's website and was interested in documenting mystical phenomenon and who died of leukemia at 15. What made him stand out? What made people go there goes a living saint?

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  18. Consider -
    "Carlo Acutis, who died of leukaemia in 2006, aged 15, was beatified in 2020 after appearing to have cured a Brazilian boy, Mattheus Vianna, of a serious birth defect which left him unable to keep down his food.
    That miracle, which dates back to February 2014, saw the boy being "fully cured" after he touched Carlo's relic and said "stop vomiting", a priest and family friend of Mattheus's said.

    The second miracle saw a girl from Costa Rica who was studying in Italy reportedly being healed after suffering a head trauma.
    She was reportedly cured by the boy after he was invoked by her mother, Avvenire, the daily newspaper of the Italian Bishops' Conference (CEI), reports."
    The Pope met with the head of the Saint-making department and off we go. BTW, the patron saint of cats is Gertrude of Nivelles, but you should probably be nominated.

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  19. Meant to ask is there a patron saint of cats. Have to google this Gertrude.

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    1. Could ask Saty. She knows all the words to Salve Maria.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3z6XCug_W8

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  20. There seem to be an acknowledged 10,000 listed saints. My guess is there might be one for Yonkers. Salve residential pickup service?

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  21. According to Jim Gaffigan there is a patron saint of bowel issues. I could've used some help.

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  22. You name it - there is a saint for it. St. Isadore of Seville, PS of computers, St, Amandus of Maastricht, PS of bartenders, and St Monica, PS of alcoholics (and mother of that wild chiled womanizer
    and father to orphans, who later became the venerable St. Augustine.
    Can''t make his stuff up.

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  23. St. Augustine's classic line from his Confessions: "Make me chaste Lord but not yet."

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  24. He practically invented 'original sin'

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  25. Gotta love the monks and those ales.

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  26. One would have thought that the "Christian Brothers" would be experts on church wine. But no= they decided to get frisky.

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  27. Went to a First Communion thing a few years back. Priest was saying the names of the candidates. Instead of saying Jack Donald he said Jack Daniels.

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  28. The Pope was not amused? My church story was the theological expert who came for Wednesday night Lenten service. Long, involved dissertation from the high pulpit, white flowing hair, booming voice. Turned around and fell down the pulpit steps head over chasuble. Kid can only hold a guffaw so long until his nose starts running like an Indy car....

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  29. Brother in law died young -54. His name was Pat, but he was always called Pit, one of 13 siblings. Priest looks down at the casket up front and intones, "Here lies our dear friend Pot"

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  30. You'd think they'd practice a few times.

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  31. Reminds us of the actor whose line was "Hark, I heard a pistol shot!"
    A bit flumoxed he shouted "Hark, I heard a postol shit! It happens,
    as a Jr. High actor, my sole line was "Oh, it's all right Taffy Ann" and I
    blurted out "Oh, it's all Taffy, Righty Ann. Left the stage for science.

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  32. Never could understand how actors could memorize all those lines. I think they should ad-lib.

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  33. Watched Rodney Dangerfield on U-Tube. Ad-libbed for 10 minutes, One after another. What did he do to kick back and relax?

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  34. He always looked worried.

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  35. Don Knotts was on the jittery side as well. Odd trivia. Knotts and Don Rickles were best friends. WTF?

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  36. Dunno if you watch but on "Three's Company" I prefer Don Knott's Mr. Furley over Norman Fell's Mr. Roper. Fell was in a fair number of movies mostly cop dramas.

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  37. John Ritter - died too young.

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  38. Quite a flock - Elvis, Natalie Wood, James Dean, Sal Mineo, the overweight comedians etc. On the other hand, some lived to 100 and over -Bob Hope, Kirk Douglas, Olivia de Haviland and George Burns.
    Burns smoked cigars his whole life, so you are on track, Z-Man.
    I suspect if a study was done, the stats would probably line up with
    the rest of society. You don't have to be famous to pass away.

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  39. Elvis died on the throne which when my sister first told me I thought was some kind of urban legend. Lacks dignity imo.

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  40. Reminds me of "Chuckles Bites the Dust" episode on the Mary Tyler Moore show. Chuckles was dressed as Mr. Peanut when a rogue elephant in the parade grabbed and tried to de-shell him. It was fatal
    and the whole staff and Mr. Grant thought it hilaraious. Mary was
    furious with them....until the funeral when she began to laugh out loud uncontrollably. Laughing at funerals is a no-no, my mother
    told me.

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  41. On the throne incidents - remember the guy who had concealed carry? Dropped his pants, sat down, gun went off and shot him in the family jewels. Had a neighbor slept with a loaded pistol under his pillow. Heard a noise in the wee hours of the morning and came close to eliminating the paper boy. 2nd Amendment - you can keep a long rifle black powder gun by the fire place. No more ,no less.

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  42. Complicated subject. Where I draw the line is you don't need Rambo-style weaponry to shoot a duck.

    Clint Eastwood made a lot of good Westerns. The thing about Westerns is somebody looks at somebody else the wrong way they get shot. Morticians had a lot of work measuring caskets. They also drank whiskey straight out of the bottle. No small tumblers with an ice cube half ginger ale and the Christian Brothers.

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  43. Worked with an elderly lady who was a big Clint Eastwood fan. I always liked James Coburn - cowboy, spy, ladies man, even the 'Americanization of Emily'.

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  44. If I'm channel-surfing and Bronson comes on I have to see what's going on.

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  45. You remember the Death Wish movies. The 4th installment was titled The Crackdown. Jay Leno quipped in the other three he was just playing around.

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  46. Don't recall the Death Wish movies, I'm more of a Life Wish guy.

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  47. Too many sequels. The first made its mark.

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  48. Sequels - Rambo 3rd Blood Part 7

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  49. Fast and Furious is the worst. They do things with cars that would kill most people. However hero emerges a little dazed with a bandage on his nose. Last check there's like twenty sequels or something.

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  50. Reminds me of the Mr. Mayhem guy in the Allstate Insurance ads.

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  51. I love the old Bruce Lee movies. He could take on 100 guys with swords no problem.

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  52. Would have been a great bouncer at the colosseum.

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  53. His fight scenes were so well choreographed they were believable. Bruce Lee vs. Chuck Norris a classic. Then Norris became a Texas Ranger. In some parts it's on all day.

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    1. Do they have a Black Belt for choreographed imbing Christian Brothers?

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    2. Mix it with some hot black tea and you have yourself a hot toddy.

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  54. Did the Black Russian thing for awhile. Open bar at office Christmas party. Must have run them low, my last glass seemed to be aviation
    gas.

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  55. Can't sleep in a hammock. Makes me feel like a baby kangaroo.

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  56. First off you need two trees close together. Are there tutorials on YouTube?

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  57. Navy ships are full of them. Between sleeping there and scrambling all over the deck with 10 foot waves, no wonder the Marines aver that sailors walk like ducks.

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  58. Whatever happened to the Mandela Effect?

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  59. Another rabbit hole.

    Saw on the news this morning Willie Mayes just passed. Would have bet dollars to donuts he was already in the hall of fame in the sky.

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  60. Has Jackson Galaxy been inducted into the Cat Hall Of Fame yet?
    Watched an episode today, guy was training a cat for agility trials,
    through tubes, over fences across see-saws. It was his hobby since is left left him. Did she leave him for Jackson?

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  61. I need to get caught up on my Jackson.

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  62. Let me know why he carries a guitar case. Filled with Fancy Feast?

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  63. Maybe he sings to the cats.

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