RTP-area local music and culture

[grady AT ibiblio.org]

Um, not to stand in the way of righteous indignation, but if your 
withholding was lowered, doesn't that mean you already *had* the money, 
and spent it? Are you actually angry at the government for letting you 
invest your own money and collect interest, rather than letting them 
invest it and keep the interest for themselves?

And when you noticed your withholding had been lowered, did you call 
payroll and say "hey, can you bump that back a notch, I don't want an 
April Surprise?"

Ross "written a check every april since I started paying taxes" Grady

James Hepler wrote:

> Anyone out there owe to the IRS for the first time?
> Maybe owe more than usual?
>
> The money I was hoping to get from the IRS this year
> was supposed to go towards my incredible vet bills,
> instead I owe $900.  And I can trace the problem back
> to its source.  
>
> H.R. 2, the tax cut bill passed by both house and
> senate on May 23 2003.  They lowered mine and Ann's
> withholding to the point where we owe money for the
> first time since we started filing jointly. 
>
> NOTHING has changed since past years except my
> withholding.  Everything else is accounted for.  
>
> Am I the only one who got hit with this?  The reason I
> ask is that I'm taking action the only way I know how.
>  COMPLAINING ON THE INTERNET.  If anyone has madd
> webskills and wants to help me, please let me know.  I
> plan to create a website which puts faces to all the
> names of our representatives who chose for me to owe
> money under the guise of tax relief.  Considering some
> of those names, I need to really try to make this
> stick.
>
> Jones, Burr, Coble, Hayes, Myrick, Ballenger, and
> Taylor are on notice, and I will not have forgotten by
> 2006 when Dole's head is on the block.
>
> Yaaaaarrrrrrrrgh,
>
> Hep
>
>
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