Just not fair...

I was handed some information yesterday, that I must admit pissed me off. I was told of a women who is a friend of a friend. She is a single mom with two teenage children. This woman, we will call her Jane, works a couple of hours a day in a dry cleaning store, she works off the books, so she can collect Social Security, Welfare, Food Stamps and whatever else the state shells out to her. Jane filed her income tax return back in January, her tax application was held because of some sort of glitch. When I was told this I thought it had to do with her address, because on her tax return application she used the address of where she works, and I thought for sure, she might be in trouble.

Well I guess the state is not as smart as I thought they were because the other day, she got a 6 thousand dollar check in the mail from the IRS, which was her tax return. So whatever the glitch was, it did not seem to matter, because the check is proof.

How does Jane get such a large tax return, but pay nothing into it? The money she lives on comes from the state which enables her to care for her family. Why would Jane be entitled to this large sum of money?

My business pays so many taxes, that I could never keep up, I have a payroll company and an accountant to take care of this for me, which in turn I pay them for there services. I get nothing back for my business, and I usually just get a small amount back for myself.

When my family sold some property that we had since the 70's the sale was mostly profit, so we had to pay the IRS 30 thousand dollars out of the sale of the property. My family's hard earned money, the money that is to be used for my parents retirement. And some of it went right to the IRS.

Does this make sense? I am so baffled by this whole ordeal, that it has me so angered.

Why is the middle class always the one that takes the hit from all ends?

Something is very wrong!