US$251 poorer

[mellowtigger]

I just paid my taxes electronically.  I didn't understand most of it and just clicked through the defaults on everything.  (No, I didn't pay alimony in 2010.  No, I didn't pay to have my livestock tested for something-or-other-disease.  No, I didn't participate in any complicated government fund where I pay money ahead of time and withdraw within

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[randomcub]

A swedish friend of mine tells me that in Sweden there is no form. You get a letter from the government telling you what you owe. You pay it. Done.

[mellowtigger]

Socialists have all the nice toys. *sigh*

("There is a long tradition of using Sweden as a socialist model to highlight social shortcomings in the United States." - Christian Science Monitor)

More seriously, though, why can't we have a system like theirs? If the vast majority of the US$ is concentrated in the hands of 10% of the citizenship, then why not just tax "Where The Money Is" to pay for the government?

[randomcub]

One does wonder. They get ridiculous things like health care, unemployment, and such.

[litch]

Terry, you're one of the sweetest guys I know but learned helplessness like this is grossly unappealing.

D/l the PDF forms & instructions and fill them out, it takes a long afternoon and is only moderately frustrating (debuggin a couple hundred lines of code is harder). You save the fee and you have to figure out the same quirks that you do in turbotax.

I'm getting $1600 back from $1000 taxes i've paid, refundable tax credits rule. Of course I only made $9977 last year & got the making work pay ($400) and the earned income ($200) tax credits. I had thousands of dollars of deductions from tuition and the loss I took on my house that I never used.

Had to file a 1040a. Sch M, 8863, & an Oregon sch 40p. Much easier than the crap I had to do for self employed & owed money but made less than 5k last year.

[pi3832]

http://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/ffh9s/ysk_in_addition_to_the_twentyone_states_listed_at/