The Realest Shyt I Ever Wrote (Pt 1.)

Keeping with my blog's namesake I decided to write well more accurately type entry one of some real shyt.

Funny how you have this in depth conversation about an issue that effects you personally and someone actually gets your thoughts published. Not because you asked them but they were thinking and have been thinking what you have been thinking for years!

Many moons ago, well not that many, when I was a junior trooper I had to pay Uncle Samuel taxes. I did not make much money back then by military standards but I wasn't struggling either. H&R Block in Germany prepared my tax return in a rather swift manner and quickly informed me I owed the establishment a little over a hundred dollars and my home state of Maryland wanted some of me too. I questioned "How"? The tax specialist crunched away showing how I had moved into this bracket and another due to my additional cost of living dollars for being overseas. After writing those checks I got smart, real smart. I read up on deductions and how to claim them. Then I met a good connection who was a tax wiz who schooled me even more and found all kinds of legal dollars for me. Made me nervous the first time but it was all legit. I refuse to give up is name due to him wanting to keep a small trusted clientele base and focus on his new career out of the Army. Anyhow, shouts out to my man "Hector"!

Now that I'm off my soap box I'll get to the meat and taters of it all. Why in Hades are service members taxed in the first place! In reality are we not basically paying for our checks and the Leave and Earnings Statements we print off? If you really want to bolster the ranks in all of the branches and that includes the Department of Transportation's baseball bat the Coast Guard, tax exempt us! You do it for the length of our deployments and no one seems to notice or care about this "unavailable" federal revenue anyway. You would have a huge talent pool flooding the recruiting stations dying to get in.

Think about it? We have young families on WIC and food stamps! Freaking government assistance and we assist, I mean implement the government's military will upon anyway who challenges the nations or who the President and his pals thinks poses a challenges. (More on that later or read an earlier post of mine). The most junior trooper would reap immediate benefits of being tax exempt. I would counsel the snot and corrective trained any youngster who had financial problems if this was enacted.

I think about my pay and I'm doing well because I earned the right to do well over the years but tax exemption status would place me at entry level baller status by some accords. I'm talking several hundreds dollars returned me monthly instead of me praying that "Hector" digs in the IRS' plethora stipulations to get me most of my money it was drying rodding me for all year.

Heck, I would even considering being a recruiter (ugggh did I just say that-forgive me family). I could sell that line quite well.

"Excuse me, can I have a word with you about all that Army could offer you"
"Did you know we offer 100% college tuition payment including books"
-Still no bites on the lines
"Did you know you could transfer your GI Bill to your kids in the near future"
"Did you know we offer $350,000 guarantee home loans"
-Nothing because he's not thinking ahead that far
"Have you ever wanted to visit Germany, Japan, Korea, Italy, Alaska, Hawaii or Puerto Rico"
"C'mon now what job doesn't require you pay any taxes!"
-Sign me up Dude, Sir, Sarge or whatever they call you dudes!

See, fish in a barrel. They would be swelling the MEPs stations with all kinds of high value recruits. We could then tell the ones that have shady backgrounds to go away again.

Somebody please hear my pleas in congress!