Life Could Go On
Nobody knows if something terrible will happen this year. I certainly don’t – all I say is that with the Mayan calendar ending in 2012, it makes it a year that a global cataclysm is more likely to occur (the Mayans may have known something we don’t). The correct response is to make practical preparations, just in case. Incorrect responses include:
- not paying taxes
- not completing schooling
- reckless or risky activities
- incurring debts you cannot repay
- ending relationships
Now don’t get me wrong – people do these things anyway. And each can be done as a response to 2012 as long as you are careful. For example, in Australia if someone like me with a good tax department relationship fails to pay taxes one year, I can probably get away with it, or at least be paying off those taxes beyond 2012.
If 2012 has proven you are incompatible with your partner on an on-going basis, that’s one thing. But if it’s just arguments about 2012, then perhaps everything will be good again come January.
Ending your studies with no chance of returning to them could be overly rash, but if you are able to postpone studies, then late 2012 is a great time to disappear to somewhere safer (like Australia).
Just don’t be this guy, who is facing 5 years in prison:
Ronald Weinland, 63, is a self-proclaimed doomsday prophet who was sure that the world was going to end on Sept. 30, 2008 and then again on May 27, 2012. Weinland was so sure in fact that he not only told all of his church members in Cincinnati, Ohio to prepare for the apocalypse, he stopped paying his taxes. After all what’s the point in paying taxes if the world is about to end.
As you have probably guessed the world did not end in 2008 or May 27, 2012 and now the Internal Revenue Service has worked with officials to convict Weinland over unpaid taxes.
Weinland was found guilty on June 13 over five counts of tax evasion. According to a grand jury indictment from 2005 through 2010 Weinland managed to skip out on $300,000 in owed taxes, funneling the money into a foreign bank account, lying on his tax forms and even writing off his own personal expenses as church expenses.
