Taxes

I, for one, simply cannot pay my taxes. I make middlin'-good money, have three kids and a child-support payment. I own my own business and have no employees because the record-keeping and hassels are stunningly death-dealing. I earned lots of money in 2007, and then gave most of it to my ex-wife, because the house was at peak value and my income was high and those were the things our settlement was based on. Then I lost almost all my work and have earned less than 25% of my 2007 income since then. I can't afford to pay my '07 taxes, haven't even filed for '08, and now I have only a few weeks before I need to file for '09, and I can't even make my child support payments on time and am stressed all the time about insurance, health-care, car repairs... hell, I can't manage to save more than a few percent of my income. I spent the last of my savings on a new roof this summer. How do actually-poor people even EAT? The only way I have been able to sustain this grind is to take it one day at a time. I can make as much as $100 per hour consulting, but my back taxes are more than I can make in a YEAR with my normal workload, and then they'll take a big chunk of that... And what's maybe worst of all is that I can't think of one lousy thing to say about this that isn't s familiar to most Americans that it's totally boring. There is no place to get legitimately, publicly, spectacularly, productively angry, which is what I want to do. So I just sit here and ineffectually write it out. All my friends have heard this 100 times and are tired of it, I'm sure. Most of them make less than I do. I want a bloody revoLUtion. Ineffectual men always do. The temptation to just vanish is very, very strong. Ok. That's all.

BTW, it will cost me $900 x 3 just to FILE my damned paperwork for those three years. Where do I get that? Quit paying for the house or child-support? Huh?