Taxes

[Tgo01]

And you call yourself a patriot....

[Fortybox]

Who the fuck gets a refund? Even while I was still in college (toward the end) I ended up paying instead of getting a refund. It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to realize that if you're paying more in during the year you have less liquid with which to grow your money. That seems like it should be more important for low income individuals filing (and thus getting refunds), not less.

Edit to add: I owe ~4k this year and have until April 19th to pay it. From 2018 to mid 2019, 4k pretty easily turns into 6k even conservatively invested. It halves the cost of your taxes just to hold onto it.

Sometimes it's unavoidable...you can only claim so many exemptions.

With children, charitable donations and mortgage interests deductions/credits I pretty much get a refund each year.

[Seran]

Yeah, refute knowledge with sarcasm. You're an idiot.