Taxes

I did my tax returns last night.  Somehow I managed to get five W-2's from my various jobs over the past year.  Super psyched about the return though!  Definitely the most I've ever gotten.  I was pretty surprised and now I'm hoping that I didn't screw something up in the paperwork.  I guess I claimed a lot of something or other and they had been taking lots of money out of my checks.  Thanks you, government, for giving me back a lot of the money I lent you to invest for yourself and somehow manage not to turn a profit with it.  Maybe this year I will loan you more money and you can make foolish investments and then return my money to me all over again.  You know what I thought of last night.  Of course you don't.  Maybe this is something that is completely obvious to everyone and I'm the last one to board the S.S. Economic Theory.  Say that the price of foriegn oil continues to rise.  That would put a strain on our oil-dependent economy which would result in an economic crash if the strain got to be too big.  Then the value of everything depreciates and all of the newly rich oil exporting countries would come in and buy up lots of 'stuff' in America on the cheap.  Then they drop the price of oil so that America prospers again and they get a huge return on their investment.