Sorry IRS and Social Security Administration, You've Been Voted Off

The other day I had a tax question. I first tried to look it up on the IRS website...but I needed further explanation. So...I called the IRS...or that's what I thought. It turns out that I actually called a call center that just looks up IRS rules and reads them to you verbatim. You can't actually call the IRS. They are untouchable, unreachable. These call center employees aren't CPA's, don't know what the tax codes mean, and haven't been trained in tax law, or in how to interpret the tax codes, or anything to do with the IRS other than reading to you verbatim, so unless you're entirely illiterate...they are unable to help you.

I also asked if I could talk to one of the auditors who would inevitably end up calling me anyway after I've done my taxes wrong. Nope.

They kept forwarding me from one department to another but none of the departments knew anything about how different laws are interpreted. So, I am unable to get explanation. All I can do is submit my taxes, probably wrong, and get audited, and then end up paying the proper taxes and additional fees and interest. Quite the racket.

My sister hit a similar road block with the Social Security Administration. She is handicapped, as is her husband, so she had been receiving Social Security. Each time her husband got a job or lost a job, they had to report it. Which they did. Unfortunately, it took the Social Security Administration a few years to process everything so when they did...they came back to her and told her she wasn't eligible for the money they had given her the last few years and they wanted it back. So now, my sister, who is on a tight budget anyway, is expected to immediately come up with $6500.00 and pay it back. Obviously that was impossible. She tried numerous times, as did my mom, to call and explain what had happened. They even drove down to the building to talk with someone...but the only people they were allowed to talk to in person or by phone were people who set up payment plans for paying it back. So now her credit is all messed up and she will be paying $35 a month for the next 16 years to correct not her oversight, but the Social Security Administration's oversight. Again, what a racket.

So here we have two examples of organizations who have grown too big, and too powerful, to serve the people, which is what any government organization should do.

So in order to get back to serving, from today forward the only tax will be a sales tax, that is weighted more heavily on recreational things and less so on necessities of life. There will now be only a limited IRS to collect the sales tax...so there is a big financial savings to the country right there.

We will also be reorganizing the management of the Social Security Administration so that the people on a local level have all the authority to make changes on the accounts.

And as far as the IRS and the Social Security Administration go, there will be no post audits, they can check info when it is submitted, and if they miss something, too bad, it can't be fixed retroactively, but only as far as future interactions.

Power to the People!
Serve the People!
Long live America and Liberty!

Yours truly,
The King

Illegal Aliens? Who's your daddy?

I have heard a lot of complaints the last few years about illegal aliens and the heavy cost that they are on our society. I hear the same arguments over and over. And yet, the more of them I meet, the less I understand the problem. I have know a lot of illegal aliens, most of them hispanic. I have attended church services done in spanish to a hispanic congregation where almost all in attendance were illegal. I have been in these peoples homes, volunteered in scouting programs with their youth, and have yet to meet even one who is not an upstanding, faithful contribuitor to our American society. I knew a Doctor from Guatemala who was working as a welding lead at a production facility but had sacrificed the life he could have led in Guatemala for what he believed were better opportunities and circumstances for his children. He did not mooch off our society in the least and has raised up 7 children who are all, also great contributors to our society. All the illegals I have met would fit this attitude and character discription perfectly. So why would we want to send them out of our country. We should be begging them to stay.

I know there are some illegals who do bring with them crime and mooching off society but I believe they are few and far between. I feel we would be better off to make them all legal and then we can monitor them the same way we do the rest of our citizens and arrest the trouble makers...then we can send them back to where they came from.

But in addition to that, maybe we should start kicking normal American citizens out of the country and revoking their citizenship if they cause problems. Surely any American Citizen with multilple D.U.I.'s would be a good candidate for deportation. Golly, half our politicians would be good candidates for deportation. We could empty out our entire prison system of any one who is a repeat offender. We could drop them off in the middle of the Sahara, or maybe in the middle of the Amazon, Maybe we just drop them off at an outpost in the Antarctic to fend for themselves...and of course revoke their citizenship so they can't just make their way back. I think that is a much better route, deport the actual problem causers, instead of the good, honest, hard working illegals.

Then we could also make the system a lot less burdensome and a lot less costly for those who try to come legally.

And I just have to ask everyone here, Who's your daddy? Don't we all decend from emmigrants at some level...so why are we so determined to keep others, who are exactly like our forfathers, from coming to our country?

I say come one, come all! Let's make this country stronger by welcoming strong, hard working individuals.

A Hardy Welcome,
From The King

A Question For All Of You?

I have been pondering a lot lately why there are sad, or depressed people in America, or for that matter in much of the world. I have had the opportunity to know of some people who are born with certain defects, or who are possibly born into a terrible family situation, and I can see how they could get down on life. Then I look around and see 99% of the rest of us who have it pretty darn good. So, I ask myself...and now I ask you...why are so many of these people who have it so good, sad or depressed or angry? It seems to me that the majority of the world should be able to be pretty darn happy, pretty much all the time.

I think that a big part of what happens are expectations. We think we deserve or are entitled to something that perhaps we see others have. Or we expect others to treat us in a certain way, or expect others to act a certain way. We expect a lot out of life. Too often we expect perfection. Now I'm not against having goals or hope...I just think we shouldn't get to where things become expectations. Hope and goals help you progress and grow. Expectations just leave you disappointed and depressed. So keep your hopes up...but lower, or even lose, your expectations. Accept people for who they are, try to understand their background that led them to act or to treat you the way they do, and love them. Accept life as whatever it may be and enjoy it. Accept yourself for who you are, and enjoy being you. Smile. Be happy. Enjoy Life.

From here on out, lets just be happy and enjoy whatever circumstances come our way.

As always,
Yours truly,
The Happy, Accepting, no expectatious King