April 17 is here - open up your wallet

Yay, our favorite day of the year - tax day. At least it came two days later this year.

I e-filed this year, and it never ceases to amaze me how brazen our federal and state governments are when fleecing citizens our of their hard-earned cash. To file federal and state taxes, I had to pay nearly $15 for each. I couldn't believe it - all to send an electronic file to the government? It's bad enough the middle class gets screwed at every turn, but those idiotic charges struck me as excessive, even for our government.

It's been on my mind a lot lately, so I guess today's the day it steps to the forefront of my thoughts, but we desperately need radical change in our government's tax policy. I'll be writing a whole lot more about this in the days and weeks ahead, but other matters are on my mind right now.

With all of the inefficiencies in our government, I'm soo happy that tens of billions of our money is headed over to the Middle East, where it has a better than average chance of not being tracked, managed or monitored properly.