Tax

Do you know how much you pay in tax? I think I pay 60%.

25% Federal Income Tax
15.3% Social Security Tax
4.72% Arizona Income Tax
5.6% Arizona Sales Tax
2% Tucson Sales Tax
1% Property Tax (based on my property tax and my income)
6% Other: vehicle registration tax, telephone taxes, cell phone taxes, school tax, medicare, unemployment tax, workers compensation Tax

I guess I won't need to worry about the 50% DeathStar Tax .. I mean the 50% Death Tax.


Now for my reflection: I think the tax rate is too high, but I also think there are two more important problems. 1: Taxes are too complicated and 2: there are alot of people who do not pay them.

A flat national sales tax that could be written in less than 80 characters is an attractive approach to me. Because right now the only tax that 'everyone' pays is the sales tax. I hear of people not paying their income tax, but who doesn't pay their sales tax?

Multiple Monitors

Using 2 monitors with one computer can increase productivity by 33%.

How It Works:
Many video cards have multiple outputs, and the first step is to plug in multiple monitors and then to setup the OS to utilize multiple monitors.

General Outlay:
As a designer, I like to use Photoshop in one window and a data/reference/browser/email program in the other.

Increasing productivity severely outweighs the cost in purchasing an additional monitor. And redundancy is an added benefit. When one monitor goes out, you can get a replacement while you work with the remaining monitor.