I wrote/mailed tax checks today...

"Taxes are taxes wherever one lives, that said cheques still must be 

an American thing, living in Canada it must be at least 25 years since 

I last had a cheque book every thing being electronic."

totem395,

technically, our bill in the States, isn't due until this Monday, 18th. While the checkbook has been a thing of past for awhile now, it's useful for making certain payments. 

It also is a good refresher for actual handwriting. It's a challenge to complete a sentence in proper cursive(a dead skill now)

Look for the tax enforcement to get even more harsh...but for who?

After having a "use tax" levied on my purchase of a used amp I bought from a private individual from Canada, I see things getting far worse for the typical citizen. I remember years ago that the citizen worked from Jan 1 til around May 1-15 just to pay the total tax burden. This includes all taxes of course. But it is still exorbitant IMO. Taxing income may be the most immoral of things since it taxes a human for their very existence because work is a natural part of the life cycle itself, unless you live on someone else’s $$$. But then you are obligated to that entity and subject to their control.

87,000 New IRS Agents

@artemus_5 Thinking that may not happen as he cannot even get the Fed Funded.

I agree 100% with your post. 

Fed Sales Tax that way everyone pays even those who do not report income. 

The cost of the U.S. government has doubled over the past 14 years... anyone feel like they’re getting their money’s worth? Are you twice as free?

@hedgehog 

getting our moneys worth?  Those worthless people in the House and Senate that do nothing but go at each other do nothing for the taxpayers, yet their average income is $160000.00+ a year.  I wish I could have had a job that paid that for not doing anything. Then you got people like Musk who can buy anything and now wants to buy Twitter so trump can have his platform back. We supposedly middle class are being taken for one big, long ride.