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2008 Soap Box Archives Forms There has been some talk in this election about doing away with the IRS and instituting a fair consumer tax and I for one would love to see it happen. I don't mind paying taxes, that's the price of civilization but I do resent having a tax code that is so complicated that I can't begin to do my own taxes. And to get right down to it there is no reason for them to be that way. All it takes to simplify things is for the government to hire technical writers who speak in plain English and explain things in simple terms and to do a simpler tax form any good accountant could do it. Why
do things have to be so complicated? If you buy a small electronic device, first
of all you've got to find the instructions in your language, then you have to
go through ridiculous warnings about not swallowing a battery or something and
then the instructions are so convoluted and When you try to leave someone a message you have to go through this whole rigmarole about waiting for the tone, when you have left your message you may hang up or press 1 for more options and on and on. I just want to hear the beep, leave my message and get on with my life. I won't even go into the frustrations I suffer on computers trying to do anything but email and word processing. I know it's simple to a ten year old child but I was raised in a society with rotary telephones and party lines and the most difficult thing I had to learn was the keyboard of an old Underwood manual typewriter. There are bells and whistles on my suburban that I can't begin to operate and we've had it for two years. I can't even stop the driver's seat from coming forward and squeezing me when I turn the key off and have not even tried to make the built in GPS unit work If I go somewhere and rent a car I have to sit there a while before I even figure how to turn the headlights on. Have you noticed how everything beeps now, in fact there are so many beeps that you don't have any idea if it's coming from the washing machine, the microwave, your cell phone or your kid's toy. Sometimes the closed caption comes on our TV and refuses to go off and I'd just about as soon not watch televisions to try to interpret the instructions as to how to make it go off. I remember years ago hearing about an advertisement that guaranteed to get rid of potato bugs and it only sole by mail order for fifteen cents. Somebody ordered one and when it came it consisted of two wooden blocks labeled A and B and the instructions read, place bug on block A and hit it with block B. Now that's my kind of instructions. Pray for our troops. what do you think? God Bless America Charlie Daniels February 29, 2008
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