{"id":7855,"date":"2017-03-27T13:42:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T20:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/?p=7855"},"modified":"2017-03-27T13:42:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T20:42:47","slug":"tax-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/tax-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax-time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That annual misery in which on the honor system and backed by penal code, Americans devote 4 otherwise productive weeks to trying to remember their highschool math, trying to figure who Fred G Wayne is and why you wrote him a check for 32.34 and called it deductible, and trying, over all, to figure a way the government owes you a refund instead of you owing the government.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure, but probably hospitals get an uptick in cases about now&#8230;stress-related conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I think national productivity would jump 10 percent if we just declared a national sales tax and forgot this madness, into which successive legislatures have attempted to inject &#8216;good spending&#8217; like credits for buying a house and deducts for having a child&#8230;woe for the child born at 12:01 AM on January 1. He missed being a deduction for the preceding year. <\/p>\n<p>The whole system is crazy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That annual misery in which on the honor system and backed by penal code, Americans devote 4 otherwise productive weeks to trying to remember their highschool math, trying to figure who Fred G Wayne is and why you wrote him a check for 32.34 and called it deductible, and trying, over all, to figure a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7856,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7855\/revisions\/7856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}