What I especially love are the people who, after loaning the feds money for free for a year, pay loan shark rates to H&R Block or the like to get it back a week sooner. [facepalm] They could have had it back a YEAR sooner, for FREE, not run the risk of the kind of crap in this article, AND not been part of supporting a semi-criminal enterprise. Oxygen thieves.
“See, yet another reason not to loan the feds money interest free for a year. Everyone thinks they have the right to claim it.”
You wonder why the RATs keep getting re-elected when morons think that a “tax refund” is like found money! You should always arrange to owe them. Makes crap like this ineffective. Starve the beast any way that you can.
Here in Contra Costa County, California, we just received a flyer asking us to support a property tax add on for the next ten years for “clean water.” Twenty-one “agencies” are asking for this money to do the job we thought they were already being paid to do. The real issue here is getting money to cover their unfunded pension liability. Here in the east county they expect to take in $9 million a year if they can get the fool voters to approve their scheme! Oh and one of the “agencies,” the Sanitary District has already announced that they are hiking annual sewer fees ten per cent each of the next two years to cover unfunded pension costs. They are all scared that their “deals” are going to go away before the get old enough to take them.
What really kills me are people who have extra withholdings taken from their pay so they can "get money back."