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Cheat, Avoid, or Revere Taxes (CART)
By Charlie Melton
I want to broach a subject nobody ever talks about, especially here in Illinois. I want to talk about taxes. Our options with taxes are described by the acronym CART, which is cheat, avoid, or revere taxes. The following is for discussion only. See “allegedly” in the dictionary.
Long ago I worked at an unnamed major hospital on Kings Highway and I-64 in a fictional East Missouri city. My co-working nemesis I’ll call “Dorf,” made me want to kill my ears every time he talked. Dorf is the kind of guy who’s so loud, uncouth, and unkempt, he makes everyone run the other way when he comes in the room. Somehow I got cornered by him and, in the midst of his idiotic ramblings, he said some very profound things. Eventually I got used to Dorf’s shortcomings and really learned a lot about life from him. It took some effort, but I kind of liked him by the time I left that job. There must be a term for the process of going from repulsion to acceptance.
Monday, we were on our way to our doctor in Centralia. We go 75 miles to the doctor because my health insurance won’t pay if you go to a doctor in the same time zone as your house. I guess they figure if you’re not paying 50 bucks in gas, we aren’t suffering enough to need medical care. [Read more…]
“ There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through there, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, …Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.” (Deuteronomy 18: 10-11, [Read more…]
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