newbuzz...Today I helped my nineteen year old daughter file her income taxes. She is a student amassing a great deal of debt to go into the teaching profession where she will be underpaid and overworked. She is already collecting bilingual story books that she knows she'll use in her lower grades classroom. She made less than $5000 last year and has already paid over $500 in taxes. Now she owes $41 to the State of MN and $41 to the IRS. There are few things more pathetic than watching a poor college kid drain the last of her meager funds to help the government bail out the big wigs on Wall Street so they can continue to live in the standard they are accustomed to. Too bad we can't designate where we'd like our tax dollars to go. I think ordinary citizens would be able to allocate resources more effectively than our politicians.