{"id":5921,"date":"2013-04-15T19:23:58","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T23:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=5921"},"modified":"2013-04-15T19:23:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T23:23:58","slug":"monday-evening-tax-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2013\/04\/15\/monday-evening-tax-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday evening &#8211; tax day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Stamp-Money-Out-of-Politics.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5922\" alt=\"Stamp-Money-Out-of-Politics\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Stamp-Money-Out-of-Politics.jpg\" width=\"615\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Stamp-Money-Out-of-Politics.jpg 615w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Stamp-Money-Out-of-Politics.jpg 300w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Stamp-Money-Out-of-Politics.jpg 455w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>April 15&#8230; the Ides of April.. if April had Ides&#8230; The day that strikes fear in all grownups. Tax day.. I somehow managed to get my stuff together enough to get my taxes done in time (which was not always the case when I was young).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always an interesting time looking through the shoebox (virtual now) of money spent and received.. Where did it all go ? did i make good choices ? Where is that stuff now ? Did I really need ? How much fun per dollar did I have.. \u00a0 and more and more&#8230;\u00a0 Where will my taxes be spent ? I used to not think so much about that, .\u00a0 I&#8217;m one who generally pays my taxes willingly.. I figure that all the complex parameters around salary,\u00a0 quality of life, tax rates, etc manage to self\u00a0 adjust to neutralize any good or bad intentioned meddling from the government.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not so sure these days&#8230;\u00a0 the older I get the more I see the imbalances in where the money goes.. &#8230; ie.. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">so<\/span> much more of our tax money goes to defense than it does to education or science or the arts.. I think a society defines itself by what it\u00a0 invest in&#8230; if we really want kids with world class skills.. why isn&#8217;t that higher on the list of spending ?\u00a0 Why do folks still have trouble affording a college education or medical care if they need it\u00a0 ? Why do we let big corporations spend to influence elections that determine tax policy ?\u00a0\u00a0 (and I say that knowing full well that I work for a big corporation ) ..\u00a0 why,&#8230; why&#8230; why&#8230; ?<\/p>\n<p>All this I was thinking as I dropped off my envelope with my taxes due on my way to work&#8230;.\u00a0\u00a0 I breathed a sigh of relief as the envelope left my hand.. I don&#8217;t need to think about money again until this time next year&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; April 15&#8230; the Ides of April.. if April had Ides&#8230; The day that strikes fear in all grownups. Tax day.. I somehow managed to get my stuff together enough to get my taxes done in time (which was not always the case when I was young). It&#8217;s always an interesting time looking through the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2013\/04\/15\/monday-evening-tax-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday evening &#8211; tax day<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[671],"class_list":["post-5921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-tax-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5924,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5921\/revisions\/5924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}