Taxed?

RantWoman nominates herself for most pathetic response to the imperatives of taxation in a few zillion days. RantWoman has been too busy coping with visual randomness and helping birth her group's contribution to the Super Duper Powerpoint festival to pay due attention to taxation.

(There might possibly be some undue and overweaning procrastination involved here, but RantWoman would, of course, remain mum if that were one of the issues.)

RantWoman finally threw up her hands and filed for an extension. Here enter even more indicators of patheticness.

1. RantWoman filed ON PAPER instead of electronically. Why? to file electronically, one is supposed to have the adjusted gross income used on last year's taxes. This seems like a logical validation check, except that if one could put one's hands on last year's tax information in the first place, one would be considerably less likely to need an extension!

2. RantWoman paid her estimated taxes out of her personal checking account instead of her business one. RantWoman searched high and low in her regular bags for her business check book. It turned up just fine as soon as RantWoman had sealed the envelope with her paper form and a check from her personal account. RantWoman supposes the taxation overseers really do not care which account RantWoman uses; RantWoman however could stand to keep her life simpler with one less bookkeeping transaction to keep her financial streams within their respective boundaries.

3. RantWoman was so charmed by the long lingering sun of a balmy spring evening that, despite being exhausted by the Super Duper Powerpoint festival, RantWoman spent a few minutes at one of the local generic protest zones observing her city's very own TeaBag protest. For description and more verbose, less content-dense than other cases commentary pro and con see The illogic of Hannity and the Tea Party Protestors .

RantWoman is in fact trying to summon her own words to complain about her issues with some of how her taxes are currently being spent. However RantWoman will stop for this evening thanking Seattle police for being even-handed. The TeaPartiers drew about the same number of helmet-clad bike cops as many protests of similar or even slightly larger protests. Well maybe the cops were being even-handed, or maybe they were also enjoying a chance to be out on a wonderful spring evening.