Now I Know!!!!!!!!!!

A huge question nowadays is, “What is wrong with our government?” Until yesterday I wasn’t quite sure. I had listened to what Obama said and to what McCain has said and their dire prognoses of doom if the other were elected, but I still wasn’t sure.

But now I know!!!! Back in April I had filed the automatic extension for filing our taxes as some of our medical payments in the past year were unavailable. Last weekend I pulled out all the records and filled out our tax return...Whew, we only owed them $99 more!! That was a relief. However in the midst of all the paperwork, figuring on the calculator, etc. it dawned on me, “Hey, we moved last year and we can write off moving expenses.” Rush to the cancelled checks and receipts again, and ahh, there it is...records of $1,545 to the movers!!! Now I see it says that in order to claim this deduction I must file a Form 3903. No problemo!! A quick trip to the internet will fix that. Sure enough right there at irs.gov is the form. I hit the print icon expecting this single page to spit out from the printer. Was I ever wrong!!! Before the printer was finished it had submitted to me 19 pages of instructions for filling out my name, social security number, and a whopping total of 8 lines of simple numbers!!!!!!

Apparently our government either thinks we are all morons, or they have too many people on payroll up there that need something to do!!!!! I don’t need 19 pages of instructions to fill in 8 lines on one page, thank you!!

So what is wrong with our government?? At this point I would say it is both: They think we are all morons, and there are way too many people on payroll in Washington!!!!!
Now I take a bow to your applause, and step down off my soapbox!!!!!