Did My Taxes

     I decided I had better do my taxes before the last minute.  I knew it was going to be painful, since I started receiving Social Security early last year -- but hey, they're not taxing that, right?

     Wrong.  There's a $6000 income deduction for old people like me, but it starts getting pro-rated down once your total income exceeds a certain threshold, and mine had.  They took every dime I paid in Federal income taxes and wanted in excess of $4000 more.

     This is the kind of thing that is easier to take if you have been preparing for it, and I had -- but it's more than I expected.  Nevertheless, I paid it, and what the heck, I always did like like beans and rice for dinner.  But the man who tries to hector me about the worker's paradise the GOP is building had better be able to duck.