While I remember my parents taking a few pieces of candy from my pile I was able to keep almost all of it being content for days with my stash. In some cases Halloween is the first understanding many kids have of the more you work, the more you get. Walk that one last hill and get to the house on the top and get more candy.
In the age of Barack Obama hymns being taught at school it's time to teach your tike early that not everything the President says, and more importantly does, is for the best. The lesson below works best if you have more then one child, one gets more then the other and potentially a child or neighbor too young or old to collect any candy.
Paul Westcott's Halloween Tax Plan:
- First off make it clear which child brought home more candy.
- Empty both bags onto a table and keep the piles sperate.
- Explain to your kids you are instating a progressive tax - meaning the more you bring home the more you're taxed. This will go over well...
- As your more aggressive child who walked that extra hill is complaining that he did more work so why should more be taken away from him, tell him he needs to do his part and that it's only fair.
- Now it's time to seperate: From the lesser pile take 30% of the candy and the greater pile take 40%. Then for every three Reese's cup (these are my favorite) take two, this will be capital gains. These will go in one big bowl.
- Then as both kids start to cry as their hard work has just disappeared, explain to them it's for the greater good of the household. Now this can be especially fun if you have another child or neighborhood friend who didn't trick or treat because of age or otherwise make sure your kids see you giving away a lot of their loot to another child. This is when you sit your kids down for "the talk" tell them about taxes, hard work and Obama phones.
- While they won't see most of their candy again every once in a while you can hand out a piece of something they don't really like but they'll take it because hey it's "free candy" they never thought they'd see again.
- You can also throw one down the disposal in front of them, that can be compared to Solyndra or most of the GM or bank bailout money.
*NOTE* IF YOU DO ACTUALLY DO THIS WAIT FOR YOUR KIDS REACTION EXPLAIN TO THEM WORK AND TAXES AND THEN GIVE THEM THEIR CANDY BACK BECAUSE IT'S HALLOWEEN!
