Tax Day

Tax day. Does anyone love it more than a bean counter? Well I can tell you it's a big relief to get it over with. And yes, as usual it was a pain. Every year while doing my taxes I think of how easy this could have been. My cousin who works in Taiwan told me he gets a postcard in the mail that calls for him to pay a flat 17% of his income. A friggin postcard! Now that's efficient. Which makes me think of Einstein's famous quote that "Simplicity is the highest form of complexity". I think of this every time I do Z health or Kettlebells, as they are the simplest exercise protocols around, but the work done behind the scenes is another story. Nothing short of brilliant I say - I am proud to be a messenger!

Compounding the pain is the fact that National Tax Freedom Day was April 13th, the day where you finally realize all your work up to this point for the year has gone to pay taxes. Ironically enough, Minnesota's tax freedom day is April 15th and puts us solidly in 9th place on the offender list. That's 105 days folks, or roughly 29% of the entire year. Americans will pay more in taxes than they will spend on food, clothing and housing combined.

And you wonder why there are 700 tea parties all across the nation? Make mine green, organic that is......