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Saturday, 19 January 2002
Whee, taxes

Did our taxes today. The instruction booklet is ambiguously worded in places, and the whole tax system is needlessly overcomplex. I would truly like to see the President and every single congressperson required to do his or her own taxes for the entire term of office, using only the tax booklet and the IRS information line for assistance -- no input from accountants allowed. I suspect the tax code would get an immediate massive overhaul. Of course, that'll never happen.

When I do my taxes, I perform each arithmetic operation three times on a calculator, and then a fourth time on paper. I'm not sure what that reveals about me, but I suspect "anal retentive" falls short of being the appropriate adjective.

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