It's Tax Day, and you are either sweating out your tax forms at the
last minute or you’ve already spent your refund and are smugly
awaiting your stimulus payment. Or you’re like me, bleary eyed and
cranky because you wanted to make sure you had an extra day to deal
with problems and thus stayed up incredibly late last night.
Has
I been snug in my bed right on time, though, I would still hate paying
taxes to our current government and be extra pissy today because I had
to. Especially after looking at this press release from the Council on Contemporary Families
at the University of Illinois at Chicago. It lays out what
family-friendly benefits US families get for their tax money versus
what people in other industrialized nations get for their (admittedly
higher) tax dollars. Check it out:
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