One Man, Many Taxes, 365 Days and the Ozzy Osbourne Family

I guess a lot of American Idol fans are happy Obama is out of the country, so their how isn't interrupted this weekend. I didn't realize American Idol was two hours long. I was waiting for the new Ozzy Osbourne show to come on, and American Idol went into the 8:00 hour. I need to laugh right now, and the Osbourne's look funny from what I have seen on the preview.

Ozzy used to scare me. I remember when Blizzard of Oz came out in 1980 and he played Springfield's Hammon Student Center. I had bad dreams my parents made me go see Ozzy, and he was scary. Plus people were doing drugs everywhere. Turns out, he's just a family guy. Not your average Fred Flintstone or anything, but the Prince of Darkness actually showed up to PTA meetings. That would have been fun to watch.

Here we are at the end of the quarter. Nearly $5000 of my money has been taken from me in one form of tax or another. Imagine how good the economy would be if we were allowed to keep half of that. The surprising number is how quick sales tax adds up. If you remember right, there was a huge controversy in Springfield, Missouri over the city's mismanagement of police and firemen pensions. They put a sales increase on the ballot which was defeated. Coincidentally, the city came up with some money from some unpaid taxes from AT&T which will probably help make up the mismanagement in funds. Look at the amount I have paid in sales tax alone.