Ray Evans Harrell wrote:
Brad,
What are you talking about? If you lived in a forest all you would need
is a stick.
> But cities make sewers necessary and necessary sewers make
taxes necessary.
cITIES DO NOT MAKE SEWERS *NECESSARY*. People got along
(and in parts of the world still get along...)
quite well dumping their chamber pots in the street in
front of their front door. Or at least such a society was
able to reproduce its individual and species life.
> Are you suffering the same disconnect around taxes as
that teenager who complained about those liberal media?
Did you get the impression I am against *paying taxes* -- like
George W Bush, for instance?
I specifically
said that I would like to go back to the old way of
paying taxes where I deducted my actual medical expenses at the
end of the year rather than trying to figure out next year's
medical expenses this year. Let me be more specific
about my frustration and sense of helplessness:
We have replaced rationality with gambling in the
deduction of medical expenses. The help we need to do
our taxes today are not just accountants but
also fortunetellers (sorry
for the pun there).
Does this help?
???
\brad mccormick
> If you weren't
so intelligent I wouldn't bother but there must be something I'm missing
here. Could you enlighten me?
REH
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Futurework] The world of work
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All this emphasis on cleaning toilets would make Dr. Freud wonder about
us. As for me, my version of very unpleasant jobs is making out my tax
returns. My tax accountant cleans up my forms, scrubs like mad and is
worth every penny I pay when she presents me with a clean, scrubbed form
ready for my signature.
[snip]
Well, in psychanalytic jargon, addicted bean counters are
"anal retentive".
But I think there is a difference between cleaning toilets
and making out tax returns: Toilets help us deal with a
natural problem (you wouldn't want to go back to where
people dumped their chamber pots out the window onto
the street, would you?). But our tax returns are
an unnecessary and wilful imposition on us, which,
unlike the progress in sanitation (one recent
improvement: toilets that use less than 1/2 the water of
the old ones), is getting worse. I think that deducting
one's medical expenses at the end of the year made a
lot more sense than trying to predict next year's
medical expenses before this year has
ended. Dealing with the tax forms don't feel better than
diarrhea or constipation, just a different nuance
of frustration.
\brad mccormick
--
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
<![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/
_______________________________________________
Futurework mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
--
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
<![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/
_______________________________________________
Futurework mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
