Let me tell you how it will be
There’s one for you 19 for me
‘Cause I’m the taxman
Yeah, I’m the taxman
With compliments to the “Quiet Beatle,” welcome to Tax Day 2024 — for all your earnings in 2023. And we do mean all your earnings.
While taxpayers in Massachusetts and Maine get a two-day reprieve (God bless you, Patriots’ Day), April 15 is the day of reckoning for the rest of us working stiffs. Uncle Sam wants you, and more than ever. Who else is going to scratch the federal government’s spending itch? With a $34.6 trillion habit — and climbing — the itch is getting itchier.
Besides, Democrats and Republicans have big plans. Ukraine isn’t going to just defend itself, after all. Somebody’s got to pick up the tab for all of those illegal immigrants pouring into a borderless country over the past three-plus years. Do you think subsidizing all those electric vehicles nobody wants is cheap? And turning the greatest nation in the history of the world into a banana republic takes lots of cash for the political weaponization alone.
But wait … there’s more, as the infomercials say.
Because misery loves company, and because we’re all bound by that galling axiom about death and taxes, here are just some of the many ways your government is burning your hard-earned dollars.
Runaway Debt
Patrick Carroll at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) earlier this year detailed “7 Ridiculous Examples of Government Waste in 2023.” Carroll’s piece draws from