The American Dream

The government and culture of the U.S. has been designed over time to make life as comfortable, and as lucrative as possible, for accountants, lawyers, bankers, and elected officials. In other words, it's a parasite's paradise.

Those that actually produce goods and services outside the banking and legal sectors are fed upon by an arrogant, swinish minority.

It's appalling to watch the promotion of such software as Quicken - listening to users declare how happy they are now that they can finish all the mind-fucking financial chores imposed on them in less time than ever before.

Gee, I guess with the time they've saved, they can handle a little more paperwork. How about some more tax code?

The greatest American Industry

This is what I want to do:

I want to download the transactions from last year into a program. I want the program to take all the transactions and sort them by categories such as 'date', 'amount', 'vendor', etc. Once sorted, I want to select all transactions by a particular vendor and assign them a tax category.

I would also like to choose the size of the type used in the program to make it easier to read. Apparently, all such features are impossible to include in a single fucking application. I've spent hours registering in support forums, chat rooms and 'knowledge bases' all to no avail.

Here's what I'd rather have done:

The government stops extorting my money and leaves me the fuck alone.

The GD income tax

I've just spent the last few hours entering data about last year's financial transactions only to find out that I'd made a mistake - even though the program 'Quicken' indicated it was responding as I expected. All this of course is to satisfy the IRS's presumption of guilt, in the event they decide to take a look at me. It's a damned yearly chore, and months of anxiety, just to prove that I'm allowed to keep an extra thousand dollars of my own. My taxable income last year was ... 10k less than the mean. Living in Los Angeles, this is a mean figure indeed, and yet, the Federal Gov. wants/demands my help. The industry that's built on the idiotic and corrupt taxation of the people is enormous and growing in good times or bad. Of course I sleep better at night knowing that those damn rich people are paying a higher percentage than little ole' me. Right?