Filed under: business
There is nothing that will turn a person into a Government-loathing Libertarian more than business ownership. Once you have to write the quarterly tax estimates to Uncle Sam, money that you earned, you sold, you developed, you were paid… well, in kind terms, it sucks hard.
Andrea had prepared for 2007 taxes so we didn’t owe much. If I have to choose between the two, I’d rather owe than get a check come tax time. If I am getting a check, that just means I over-paid. I can put my money in a much better savings vehicle than the bloated govt., thank you very much.
So as a business owner, around this time of year we get the double-whammy: We get to pay the balance of taxes-due for 2007, AND pay our 1Q 2008 estimate for D&A Design! And to make it even more of a joy, March has sucked in terms of getting checks for the business. It has been a very good month in terms of developing new business, and I fully expect the months ahead to be much better than March. But still… writing those checks to a govt. that gives zero in return, that invades other countries for no good reason, that funds artists who place the Cross in a fish bowl of urine, … it’s just as taxing to my nerves as it is to our wallet.
Yet even as I write this I hear Jesus …give to the government what’s theirs, give to God what is His (my paraphrasing)… it’s not “mine” in a grand sense.
