Rewarding the Dilatory

Intuit, maker of TurboTax and other tax software, had its servers overwhelmed by last-minute filers on Monday. They were processing up to 60 returns a second from yahoos who wait until the last minute. Yes, this was the day after the normal deadline and people STILL had not filed. Now, Intuit is going to refund the filing fee to those folks whose returns were not accepted due to the logjam. Yes, by all means, lets reward the folks who didn't file in, say, FEBRUARY. Let's reward everyone who waited till the last minute and created the very problem for which they are being rewarded.

I have a better idea--let's refund money to everyone who filed a couple of months before the deadline and make the dilatory idiots pay extra!

Stop the Madness

It's tax day, and the post office is open late. Again. How much money is wasted every year paying people to work the post office pickups, police to monitor the lines, etc., all so idiots can drive up and mail their tax forms at the last possible moment? What, they didn't know the deadline?

Stop this lunacy at once: Taxes are due April 15th at midnight, and if you can't get to the post office during regular business hours during any of the many weeks prior to the 15th, then you just need to dig a hole and bury yourself in it. As we often do in this country, we are spending good money to coddle people who won't step up and take care of their own business. Ultimately, the rest of us have to pay for their inadequacy.

Enough!