The most disturbing factoid that I learned on Tax Day was that the average American must now spend a full twenty-four hours filling out tax forms. That's three work days. Or, think of it this way: if you had to put in two hours per night after dinner to finish your taxes, that's two weeks (with Sundays off). I saw a talking head economics professor on some Philly TV channel pontificating about how Americans procrastinate. He was laughing. The IRS guy they interviewed actually said, "Tick, tick, tick." You have to wonder if Governor Ruth Ann Minner and her cohorts put in twenty-four hours pondering whether or not to give Kraft Foods $708,000 of our State taxes while demanding that school districts return $8-10 million each?
“A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.” -- Charles Wheelan, "Naked Economics"
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Geez, when I got married we did it in our rowhouse in Philly. I think the guy who did the ceremony was a Moonie and cost $70. My parents gave us a check for $500 (a SHOCK) !
All the guests got amazingly drunk, and my husbands sisters stayed around to clean up.
It was the best wedding ever.
I'm certainly not saying I haven't done some stupid things. I have. But I dealt with it and sacrificed to make it right.
Guess I should have waited for my bailout. Stupid me !