Tax season
| SHE SAYS |
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| Dinah S. Ventura |
A hardworking member of our staff in the office is determined to pay her income tax before deadline this week. She does not earn as much as, say, those high-living government officials and military honchos, and yet she would gladly set aside that little bit of her salary for our country’s coffers.
Perhaps I will attribute this to her youth and basic goodness as a human being. These past two decades, it seems many of us have grown horns, declaring our doubts of government’s ability to maximize our country’s assets and wondering if and how our taxes are really used.
It doesn’t help that corruption scandals regularly break out and virtually slap us in the face. The latest one — of supposed straight-backed generals showing us their crooked side — has been the most shocking by far because, to be honest, we never expected such a thing. In our book, politicians are the usually the culprits, and not those men of honor in the military!
Oh well, it just goes to show how naïve we can be..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110411com7.html
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