tax cut? you call that a tax cut?

Like we really needed it anyway.

OK, here's the scoop: there are what, 4 paychecks left this year, right? So the Federal tax rate I've paid this year, averaged over all the paychecks received thus far, should be a good representation of what my withholding will be for the year, right?

My cut of the G.W. "Compassionate" Bush Tax Farce: a whopping 0.2%. Yes, that's right folks, out of every $100 I earned this year, I got to keep an extra 20 cents! Goddamn! Now I can go out and buy that Humvee I've been a-hankerin' for.

Now, I shouldn't be complaining - I make a good buck, about $100K this year, so all those shiny dimes add up ... to $200. Oh yeah. I guess I'm gonna owe a century note on that fat $300 check that Dubya was so kind as to front me last year. Not to mention the balloon payment we'll all owe come the year 2010.

Not to worry, though, according to the Mayan calendar, the world will be ending in 2012 anyway, so if we can keep the creditors at bay long enough, we might even get out of paying for Mr. Compassion's idiocy. If we live that long, of course. The way he keeps pissing off the rest of the world, we'll likely find ourselves having to prove that we are in fact the Biggest and the Baddest Superpower on the Block more than a couple times before the Mayan calendar runs out.

Keep smiling! (It makes Ashcroft wonder what you're up to)