Welcome to The Wallet Show Aftercast.

All the stuff we did not get to during the course of the show today, including the weekend. Betty Rock, active up. Did you get up early to do your taxes this weekend? No. Did you sleep in? Okay. Yeah. I slept in for sure. Yeah. I'm not going to get up early for that. But I did accomplish it. I got it done. I'd use chat GPT only once or twice. so I would consider that.

What'd you have to use it for?

Like just tax question like that they ask you? Well, because my refund was coming in higher than I thought it should, and that was like, oh, bragger. No, no, because I don't want the IRS knocking on my door. That's crazy. I checked, and it was like, yeah, you should have checked this box and I was like oh, okay, perfect. And then it was lower. Yeah,

it was like, yeah, you should have checked this box.

And I was like, oh, okay, perfect.

And then it was lower?

Yeah, it was lower, but it seemed like it was right.

So I was like, okay. That's a bummer. That makes me feel better. I've always told, like, my accountant and stuff like that. I'm like use all the law you can but don't even get close to like skirting the things man things, man. Like, because the IRS, man, dude, you do not want to be. I mean, they have made people's lives miserable. Have you been audited? No, I never had. Nocking on everything. IRS, you should knock on his door. That's the thing, man. Like, we all have to voluntarily pay taxes. They make it so hard to pay taxes.

Even if you're using turbotax, the questions it asks you, you're like, I don't know.

I'm not sure.

And so just doing a flat tax would take all of that out.

It would get rid of all of the tax people that you don't need, like the IRS agents.

It's like, okay, everybody pays 10% of what you made, done, and then we're good to go. And it's like, you write your check and you call it good. But there's so many things in the tax code that wealthy people can use to avoid paying taxes, and then, you know, the middle class ends up paying for everything. And then you get in trouble if you don't

do it right accidentally. So dumb. It's nuts. I ended up, I, for the first time in years, I have to

pay taxes every year. Like for the longest time, I never paid taxes. I got like a nice refund. And

then all of a sudden out of nowhere, I started having to pay taxes. I'm like, what in the world? And then the government's like, hey, guess what? We thank you for paying at the end of the year. But you know what we'd like for you to do instead? Let's do this. Every four months, just to let us know you're still there and that you care about this country. I want you to pay your taxes. Like, pay a quarter of it. What? So like, but my account's like, yeah, you got to do this.

I don't even know why.

I'm like, okay. You don't know why? Then I ain't going to do it. Well, that's right. But see, if you don't do it, because for like three years I didn't do it, I refuse. Because I'm like, no, I'm not paying you money that I can have invested and be making money on until I have to pay you.

But then they charge me like $300 in a fee every year for that.

Ouch. and be making money on until I have to pay you. But then they charge me like $300 in a fee every year for that.

Just because I was hardheaded and was like, no.

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