You know what time of year it is ...

It's April. What does that mean? It means it's time for me to bitch about taxes again.

It's amazing, that for twenty years now, I have made an effort every single year to make this as easy and painless on myself as possible.

I'm not talking about saving money, or getting the biggest deduction like most of the pathetic U.S. ... I'm just talking about making it easy to get the shit paid so I can get back to my life.

What's most amazing is that I have failed every single year for the past 20.

I just want to pay my part so the roads get paved and all that, then go back to my pathetic little life unmolested by the IRS. I'm a good little taxpayer, I fill out all the forms and follow all the rules, and I'm more than happy to pay my due. I just want it to be reasonably easy to do so.

But I'm convinced, at this point, that the IRS wants to make me as miserable as fucking possible. "Bend over, Mr. Moran. We don't really want your money, we just want your asshole to be sore."

What kind of pathetic, worthless fuckers work for the IRS? How worthless and lonely are they that they have to torture people to get joy out of life.

It's not like my taxes are complicated. I own a house, which means I have to fill out exactly 1 extra form. And yet, despite me trying to recalculate every single motherfucking year, I can't get my paycheck deduction to be right so that I don't owe anything in April. This year the error is 10%. 10% error after filling out all the paperwork correctly!

My first thought is to complain that math shouldn't be this unreliable, but I keep forgetting that income tax isn't based on math, it's based on democracy. And democracy is the stupidest idea ever.

Of course, trying to base a tax system on sycophantic politicians who serve short terms and have no real responsibility for the long term-health of this country or it's people is going to produce a patently unusable tax system. I should not be surprised by this. I shouldn't be surprised that the whiners who constantly bitch to the government to give them a little deduction here or there are listened to (for the sake of winning votes) until the system is so circular, so incomprehensibly knotted that nobody could ever understand it.

It shouldn't surprise me. And it doesn't. It just infuriates me because there's nothing I hate more than a bad situation that refuses to improve, and the headache of taxes has been a headache all my life and will continue to be a headache for a long time.

I've gotten to the point where I simply expect to be crazy for a few months around tax time, because every attempt I've made to prevent that from happening has failed.

Dear IRS: Fuck off an die