Sestak is in!!!

[Divernan]

14. Just Harvest does a lot of good

I just started working with them in February in the VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) program and am very impressed with the quality of volunteers - lots of CPAs, attorneys and university professors, and the amount of financial assistance/tax refunds & credits their program gets for the working poor.

We're running a little behind this filing season because of the extreme winter weather and the one Saturday the computer system crashed. I just signed up for additional volunteer time slots. The U.S. tax code is an abomination - not just for the loopholes for the wealthy, but also the convoluted drafting. When I took tax law back in the '80s, my professor said the no one really understands the entire code. That was 30 years ago, and it has just gotten more convoluted since then. We CPAs and lawyers are struggling to understand and apply it - how are less educated people supposed to do so? But I do like helping people in this program. It's intellectually difficult but emotionally rewarding.

And I loved your description of the county meeting - biting but colorful!