Thanks and thanks
Paid income tax today. While reading the W2s and scanning through the checkbook to be sure I'd sent the quarterly estimates, I noticed several things.

1. Interest on savings was $73.00. If the Chosen hadn't been stealing all interest for the last 7 years, the interest would have been more like $4000. My income from SS and software work was $16k. In other words, the Chosen are stealing 25% of my proper income each year. Thanks, Chosen! I appreciate the favor. If you hadn't been stealing 1/4 of my income, I might have been able to buy a better house or remodel this one. That would have been a lot of trouble. Now I'm spared from the trouble, and several construction workers are spared from the work and income the remodeling would have created. Hooray for the wealth effect! Much better for the country when all that money goes into stock buybacks and trillion-dollar bonuses for criminals.

2. Medical care is no big deal since I turned 65 and got on Medicare. After Romneycare and before 65, Group Health was charging me an extra $200 a month for "pregnancy services and child dental services", which I could not POSSIBLY use under any circumstances. Of course the charge didn't provide ACTUAL dental services for the poor sucker who was paying the $200. If that amount had been covering ACTUAL dental services for the sucker, it would have made a real difference. I pay a lot for (uncovered) dentistry, thanks to bad tooth-genes and a misspent childhood. How much? This year, which is fairly typical, I paid $1200 for one crown and two cleanings. The monthly $200 to Group Health would have covered that amount easily, still leaving room for the "pregnancy services", i.e. ABORTIONS FOR CRACKHOS.

So: I offer a sincere thanks to FDR for SS and to LBJ for Medicare. I offer a snide sardonic bitter vicious thanks to more recent governments for the atrocious immoral nation-destroying Romneycare and for allowing the Chosen to steal 1/4 of my income.

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