April taxes bring May returns

I’m being totally honest when I say I do not know much about my taxes. I know I get forms from my employers, and my parents get certain deductions because I still live at home.

I find myself a little too busy every year to do them and since my dad offers, I just let him.

It’s not that I don’t want to know about my taxes because I do. It just freaks me out how I can’t do them yet and I’m almost done with college in the Elliott School of Communication.

And by the time I’m ready to graduate next year, I will never have done my own taxes.

My parents haven’t done theirs in years because they hired it out and so have most of my friends, and I don’t understand why.

When our forefathers set out to build our country, I don’t know if they intended on our taxes being this difficult.

Early settlers would line up for hours and pay their taxes each year, and I would rather do that.

I would rather have my hands all over my taxes than be at risk of being charged more.

Honestly, I would rather have taxes be more like getting your drivers’ license or something I can do on my smartphone in just a click. We are in the dawn of Siri telling me everything except my taxes. I don’t accept it. I just want to know how taxes work.