Letter of the Day (March 13): Tax headaches

March 13, 2013 at 1:34AM
Photo: Income tax form.
Photo: Income tax form. (Elliott Polk (Limelight Networks Client Services) — Getty Images/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

I just did my taxes, and I feel like I was in the ring with George Foreman for 12 rounds.

I need to go lie down.

If a politician were ever to simplify the tax code down to a postcard, like John McCain said he'd do, he or she would be the biggest national hero since Bruce Jenner (obviously prior to his Kardashian days, but in 1976, when he won the decathlon in the Olympics, Jenner was the bomb).

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