This week, I discovered I am not the only one who has been piling up tax information (OK, so mine is neatly organized in a folder) in anticipation of filing 2009 taxes. Multiple people in my office were discussing whether they should file their taxes this weekend. It made me happy.

Someone posted on facebook that the government is stupid for taxing “successful” people, defined in the ensuing discussion as people who make more than $125,000 or $250,000 per year. Also discussed was big business’s power to create jobs and how we should lower business taxes to create jobs.

Question 1: whom should we tax, the people who make $250,000 a year or the people who work at Walmart and make $18,000 a year?

Question 2: why is it so cool that big business creates jobs that pay $18,000 a year so the public has to subsidize those jobs with state aid, foodstamps, etc.?

Corollary to question 1: Do you really think that people who make $250,000 a year are paying taxes on all that income, anyway? Seriously?

I say tax the hell out of big business everywhere. The race to the bottom where states vie for the promise of jobs is self-defeating.

Also, I want to be a business, so that when I file my taxes, I get to deduct all my living expenses and then just pay taxes on the net.

I thought all these things, but resisted starting a flame war. Facebook really is not good for me sometimes.

Flame war #2 could have occurred today, but I exited the discussion. I will simply say that after working in the industry for almost five years, I damn well know what I’m talking about. Yes, I’m easily tweaked. And I’m obviously always correct about everything, too. Except football. I know nothing about football. I leave that to the experts.

OK, I admit, I went back a day later and continued the discussion. But I tried not to flame, but rather to explain facts, facts, facts.