This Day Has Started WAY Too Early
For some odd reason I was up at 5:00 a.m. for those who know me even only slightly you know this is beyond rare... we had a guy in college who touched off odd happenings and disasters when he got up too early (e.g. one day when he got up before 8 a.m. the Pope was shot) hopefully nothing like that will happen today.
It wasn't kitty craziness that got me out of bed today, just a general sense of "eh" and the need for more cold medicine.
Hitting the paper I saw where the State Legislature has decided (at least in the Senate) not to enact the latest round of scheduled income tax cuts for 2010. Meaning that the taxes in 2010 stay the same as 2009. Status quo. No change. The same.
But when you listen to the Republicans and our local loony paper they are screaming that this is a tax increase, OMG your taxes are going up! Four words:
No. They. Are. Not.
Not going down is not the same as going up. And this is not a matter of perspective, this is fact. Q: Are taxes increasing? A: No but they are not going down as planned.
So while it is true that the taxes in our state are not going down and thus the break we may have counted on isn't going to happen we are not being taxed one penny more than we were last year (unless you were lucky enough to make more and move to another tax bracket if so: lucky you!).
This is actually a good thing. Our budget is a mess (whose isn't really?) and the ones who would have suffered most should that tax cut have been applied would have been our schools. They have already endured some cuts this year and would have faced more since everything else has been slashed (rather viciously, just ask the libraries) and they were the only place left to cut with any significance. And really, is that what we want? To cut school funding?
I should not read the paper this early. News from Copenhagen doesn't look good for a climate change treaty (not that the US Senate would have ratified it anyway - another rant for another time methinks); Senator Lieberman is still being a twit and health care reform isn't all that reforming as presently written not to mention the whole thing appears to be stalled; the wives of Al-Qaeda leaders are now calling for women to join the jihad and become martyrs; and a small boy (age 4 I think) was found wandering the streets drinking beer and wearing a dress he'd stolen from under a neighbor's Christmas tree because he wants to go to jail to be with his daddy.
That's it, the day has started way too early so I am going to do the only thing I can as a sensible person.... go back to bed.
It wasn't kitty craziness that got me out of bed today, just a general sense of "eh" and the need for more cold medicine.
Hitting the paper I saw where the State Legislature has decided (at least in the Senate) not to enact the latest round of scheduled income tax cuts for 2010. Meaning that the taxes in 2010 stay the same as 2009. Status quo. No change. The same.
But when you listen to the Republicans and our local loony paper they are screaming that this is a tax increase, OMG your taxes are going up! Four words:
No. They. Are. Not.
Not going down is not the same as going up. And this is not a matter of perspective, this is fact. Q: Are taxes increasing? A: No but they are not going down as planned.
So while it is true that the taxes in our state are not going down and thus the break we may have counted on isn't going to happen we are not being taxed one penny more than we were last year (unless you were lucky enough to make more and move to another tax bracket if so: lucky you!).
This is actually a good thing. Our budget is a mess (whose isn't really?) and the ones who would have suffered most should that tax cut have been applied would have been our schools. They have already endured some cuts this year and would have faced more since everything else has been slashed (rather viciously, just ask the libraries) and they were the only place left to cut with any significance. And really, is that what we want? To cut school funding?
I should not read the paper this early. News from Copenhagen doesn't look good for a climate change treaty (not that the US Senate would have ratified it anyway - another rant for another time methinks); Senator Lieberman is still being a twit and health care reform isn't all that reforming as presently written not to mention the whole thing appears to be stalled; the wives of Al-Qaeda leaders are now calling for women to join the jihad and become martyrs; and a small boy (age 4 I think) was found wandering the streets drinking beer and wearing a dress he'd stolen from under a neighbor's Christmas tree because he wants to go to jail to be with his daddy.
That's it, the day has started way too early so I am going to do the only thing I can as a sensible person.... go back to bed.
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