In a testament to the stories we tell ourselves, 24-year-old Rhiannon Weisz is currently filing her taxes and grumbling about how “school never taught us the important, useful things,” as if she remembers literally anything from school at all.
“It’s just so frustrating that we had to learn a
I do volunteer work in schools and have a unit focused on taxes. It’s always funny to see little 2nd graders go “wait, I don’t get to keep all of my money?!”
But then we do explain that taxes pay for important stuff, like the school we’re in and their teacher’s salary.
Yeah, but once you get them a few years older, you need to start explaining the less useful things taxes go into and how divisive the entire topic is.