{"id":474,"date":"2005-04-08T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-08T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=474"},"modified":"2009-04-12T19:58:35","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T23:58:35","slug":"i-hate-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/04\/08\/i-hate-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"I Hate Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have I mentioned before that <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">I hate taxes<\/span>? There&#8217;s nothing like having everyone responsible for paying this ridiculous income tax, but making the code for it so complicated that you need to hire a professional in order to file it correctly &#8211; and avoid being fined <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">even more<\/span>! I mean, small businesses are the backbone of the American economy &#8211; Bush said so himself!!! Yet you&#8217;ll never encounter more tax obstacles in your <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">ENTIRE LIFE<\/span> than you do when you&#8217;re trying to survive as a small business owner.<\/p>\n<p>I have just 2 words to say about all this:<\/p>\n<p>SMALL GOVERNMENT<\/p>\n<p>If our government wasn&#8217;t so huge &amp; bloated, I wouldn&#8217;t be paying out nearly <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">40%<\/span> of my income to tax.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just not fair&#8230; \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have I mentioned how I HATE taxes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[200,199,10],"tags":[19,137],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","category-my-opinion","category-rants","tag-government","tag-tax","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-7E","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":809,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2006\/10\/28\/taxes\/","url_meta":{"origin":474,"position":0},"title":"Taxes","author":"Keith Survell","date":"October 28, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"You might want to watch this - It's about taxes, specifically the United States Federal Income Tax - and how it may not be legitimate. The big argument is about whether or not there is a \"law\" that requires you to file a form 1040 and pay your taxes each\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1079,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/04\/15\/tax-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":474,"position":1},"title":"Tax Day","author":"Keith Survell","date":"April 15, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Yep, it's that time of year again. April 15th in the United States has a special meaning - it's tax day. File your yearly income tax return OR ELSE! 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