I keep thinking that it would have been really nice to have operated a business in the 1800's. The days when the West was truly wild and the government didn't try and regulate everything. Part of the reason that prices are high, people are frustrated, and businesses are stressed is taxes. We have sales tax, withholding tax, unemployment tax, quarterly taxes, annual income taxes, payroll taxes, property taxes, personal income taxes, taxes for this and taxes for that. It makes me wish that I was facing the person who decided to place our world into tax hell down the streets of Dodge City for a showdown. Either way I would win. Either I would slay taxes, or I would be slain and would no longer need to submit the darned things and fill out hundreds of forms. Hell must be the IRS on earth, and Sauron need no longer build Barad-dur in Mordor. He can just set up residency in Washington DC. 
I was supposed to assist a couple of customers last night. I was supposed to relax for a couple of hours and decompress. I was supposed to do a whole lot of things. Instead I ended up spending the entire evening helping my DH to fill out tax forms for his company for a retirement plan that hasn't been active since the mid-1990's that my DH wants to close. All he wants to do is transfer the money from one retirement vehicle to another. That required 2+ hours of work last night, and it will require 1-2 hours on the phone with a consultant today and more time tonite. All this so that we can change the way that the money is invested. And if we don't do all of this? Then the IRS will come after our asses and can assess fines and penalties that are higher than the actual funds that are in the accounts. How did we allow this monster to grow? The saying is that you can't escape death and taxes. I think that taxes lead to early death and are simply evil in so many ways. A simple concept has been WAY overdone and overcomplicated. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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