Fellow childfree folks, how much did you love writing the check out to the IRS after hearing all the

[Xyzse]

98. Well Sir...

It is really dependent on a few things regarding your employment.
If:

A - You are self-employed - Congrats you will more likely than not, always write a check unless you find enough on your operating costs to defray that.

B - You are an employee - If so, you fall under a few categories:

1 - You've set your withholding too low that you will pay taxes.
2 - You've set your withholding lower but have a business on the side that you can use to justify operating costs which then would either make you pay taxes or not.
3 - You've set your withholding high enough that you will always get a refund

I fall under the B2 category. In many ways, I want the Bush tax cuts to expire by the end of the year. That way, the conversation shifts to creating a tax cut rather than raising taxes.