Life is taxing, but common sense could work

 Life is Taxing

It would seem that most people most of the time can find some reason to complain about taxes.  This is partially and sometimes totally because most. People are fairly unaware of what their world might look like without the use of collective dollars to perform collective services.  For example, imagine. Your regular life in a world where there were no regulated places for you to drive or park?  Let’s say roads, any portion of them, were constructed and maintained by private citizens at any level we might choose?  Now let’s do the same with building materials, the quality of food, the distribution of water, and let’s toss in the education of our children which is controversial sometimes, however, we. All know parents who have no place whatsoever in teaching their kids only what they know with the reading or educational materials they own.  

Yet as April 15th (known as Tax Day in the U.S.) approaches it’s probably inevitable that we contemplate what we pay unto Caesar.  Depending upon which state we lived in during which tax cycles we have put tax funds in the hands of our fellow citizens to perform   some fairly strange tax tasks. 

For instance, although cookies crumbling in certain circumstances should be considered a crime, spending tax dollars to determine if gingerbread houses would hold up in earthquake conditions was probably a stretch.  While gingerbread structures might  or might not hold as California floats away from the western Rockies, did other snacks get tested?  Like slightly moist Jolly Ranchers left in the sun for a week would probably stick to each other and the ground in almost any context Mother Nature has to offer.  

In the “high-tech tax spending category we have two winners.   We used money to have people stare at Barbie dolls and then used simulated scenarios to determine if staring at dolls helped people recognize faces in video evidence.  This facial recognition study proved that staring at Barbie didn’t improve a. Thing, but did they try ogling Ken or maybe G.I. Joe? Data man, we need data!

The second hi-tech tax task was a study where we set computers in front of television sets hoping to help the computer learn language and get insights  about human speech.  The study results showed that your television can’t teach your computer much of value without adult supervision—so maybe any kindergarten teacher or responsible parent could have clued us in on that—just saying.

Finally, tax dollars went to study whether frat kids drink more and sleep later than other students when events are related to campus recreational activities such as big time college football etc…Guess what?  They do—shocked?

So we make some crazy decisions about how tax money is being spent and yet it may be time to take a common sense. Look at taxation, therefore here are three proposed new taxes that might move us toward “domestic tranquility.”which was mentioned in one of those pesky founding documents.  

The Noisy Toys Tax Ac-  Every toy that makes a noise must either be taxed at the point of manufacture or contain a permanently powered bluetooth chip thatch blinked to a smart phone volume switch.  Toys can have sound they just can’t be unending and loud.  Also kids can make the sounds on their own…I’ve heard them..I’ve been them….we don’t need loud sounds that burn batteries.

The “Childproof” Cap Tax Act—It’s okay to have safety measures to protect kids, however, if adults can’t open 3 out of 4 of the caps you put on medicine, food, or hygiene products, then. Bam! Big pharma should be paying a tax because not being able to open things creates stress, stress raises blood pressure, and yep.. you know it…strokes, heart attacks, and really nasty gas in elevators  will be the outcome.  A lot of people use their fingerprint to buy “who let the dogs Out” on i-tunes why can’t our medicine come in containers that a fingerprint will open?  And while we’re at things that should either be built differently or be taxed let’s consider the 

No tile in the earpiece tax—Yes.. we know that there are slim “tile” type devices that can be tracked by our phones.  All glasses that include prescriptions lenses should have to come with a tracker.  Why does it take people so long to find their glasses?  Hint—what are glasses for?  Seeing better perhaps?  So wouldn’t it make sense to have some way to locate glasses that did not depend upon them?  

Prescription glasses cost a ton and vision insurance costs a ton.   It seems that this little change could help a ton?

Anyway—these are just a few thoughts, however, don’t worry about new or old taxes all that much, to date I’ve never seen a bank. Truck follow the funeral parade—you can’t take it with you.  

As the clock ticks forward to tax day the words of Grandma “Murphy”  linger heavily in the air

“Life is not fair”  and “There will be no whining!”