SUTA FUTA FICA PUTA

You got your state unemployment tax. Gotchyer federal unemployment. Got the FICA. Got SS. Got Medicare. Got percentages. Got 941s or something. Got quarterlies. Got the monthlies. Got insurance. Got payroll. Got the EIN. Got the contract. Got the EFPTS; one for individual one for company. Got the accounts logically split. Got the double accounting.

And really --- it isn't that bad! In fact, I see how the forced organization and understanding is going to cascade into the home. I welcome and need that.

The strangest thing is that I feel like "Spoonbill" is beginning to separate from me into its own thing, like it is asking me to let go and join the company. In the beginning, LLC and S-Corp was presented in terms of tax benefit, at least, if I remember correctly, most, not all, advice centered around that, with a side benefit of not getting sued personally which I just couldn't fathom happening... but had made up my mind that if the devil sought to sue me... I'd just forfeit... I feel the same about stupid car alarms. I saw incorporating as an individual a needless complication and I didn't care if it saved me some money. That's just not the point... like trying to count your stupid computer room's square footage as a "business office" and deducting for the degradation of your "equipment" which is a stupid $350 computer.

At that point, S-Corp and LLC seemed like the chincy thing to do to get some side benefit from taxation law which was made by corps to protect themselves and let everybody rot --- well not that bad.

Now, it is confronting me from a different angle - a communist angle. It's letting go and joining the pack. "Spoonbill" now becomes "The Man"- a good one hopefully. They aren't all bad. Overhead, once a horrible fat beast slathering itself all over, not working, lazy... becomes a pooling of resources for things necessary.

Behind the scenes of a company, even as tiny as two, is a lot of work. What could drive one to do that??? How to drive alone, but *with* ? I wish I was a communist. I try to be. One can aspire! It's not money that drives me. It's stubborness. I don't want anybody to tell me what to do... and don't want to tell anybody else what to do... but want to do whatever it is that we do together. I'll give as much as I can. Wish I could give more. I don't give more. I don't do what I wish or want all the time.

I do want to learn. I want teachers. I want apprenticeships.

Understand, I am probably less communist than you, the reader. Go you! I'm just trying to fit in and not fit in at all.