The first of the year finds business-people across America scrambling to send out 1099 forms and sorting receipts for taxes.

The deadline for the first one-half of property tax has come, with the second half looming April first. Some people think renters avoid property tax but it is included in the rent. Everyone pays taxes.

Will Rogers said, “When a party can’t think of anything else, they always fall back on Lower Taxes.” It takes money to run the government and Rogers is quoted as saying, “The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it’s in the way that it’s spent.”

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