{"id":71092,"date":"2019-04-18T05:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T10:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71092"},"modified":"2019-04-17T20:06:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T01:06:38","slug":"simplify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71092","title":{"rendered":"Simplify"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I\u2019m a W-2 employee with employer provided health insurance.\u00a0 My wife is retired, collecting Social Security and a pension.\u00a0 We buy license tabs, pay interest on our home mortgage and give to charity.\u00a0 We adjusted our withholding so we break even \u2013 no refund but nothing due.\u00a0 With the new simplified tax code, we should be able to file our tax return on a postcard, right?\u00a0 But no, State and Federal is 17 pages.\u00a0 I lack the skill to file on paper and lack the patience to play with software so I pay a tax preparor $200 to dot the \u201cI\u2019s\u201d and cross the \u201cT\u2019s.\u201d <br>If we lived in a socialist country, I wouldn\u2019t have to deal with any of that.\u00a0 They government would pay for all my expenses and keep everything I earn aside from doling out a small allowance, same as when I was a kid living with my parents.\u00a0 It\u2019s beginning to appeal to me.<br>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>As long as I&#8217;m the &#8220;parent&#8221;, I sure don&#8217;t mind.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Somehow, that seems  unlikely. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a W-2 employee with employer provided health insurance.\u00a0 My wife is retired, collecting Social Security and a pension.\u00a0 We buy license tabs, pay interest on our home mortgage and give to charity.\u00a0 We adjusted our withholding so we break even \u2013 no refund but nothing due.\u00a0 With the new simplified tax code, we should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71093,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71092\/revisions\/71093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}