Buhner Dot Com » taxes http://blog.buhner.com Est. 2000, which is like 1947 in Internet years. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:50:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Glass half empty http://blog.buhner.com/2009/02/02/glass-half-empty/ http://blog.buhner.com/2009/02/02/glass-half-empty/#comments Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:03:01 +0000 Tom http://blog.buhner.com/?p=306 One of the things that keeps me going when I'm most stressed about "the situation" is that as much as I might think things are bad, there are people who are in worse shape than I am.  Sometimes I need to stretch and think of people in war-torn villages in the Middle East or the whole "starving children in Africa" thing, but it's a lot more "comforting" (not really the best word - I'll see if I can come up with a better one by the end of the post) when it happens to actual humans around you that you identify with.

One of my friends at work recently received her W-2 form and found out that for the past year or so, our company has taken out zero in state and federal taxes, leaving her high and dry when April 15th comes around, whereas she might have been thinking about a refund, now she's trying to figure out how to pay more.  A quick check of my w-2 saw a tiny amount in my federal withholding, however that's attributed to the litter I have at home, and that state taxes were still being taken out in a happy-go-lucky manner.

So once again, could be worse.

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