Tax Angst

A highly enjoyable, much-appreciated April 15 Megan rant:

All this useless activity is so that our politicians can look like They Care by giving tiny tax breaks to all of their favorite people--that is to say, the people who vote for them and give them money. All of these tax breaks, almost without exception, do the most good for the people who least need them. Meanwhile, they waste time for the rest of us, distort the economy, and require us to pay extra people to process tax returns. It's lose-lose-lose all around unless you owned a seal-fur farm between 1987 and 1991.