A small tax rant. A big one'd be taxed.

After Mitch's death in 2000, it was determined by the IRS that we had royally fucked up and owed them 1,200$ that I royally fucked up and didn't pay one iota of attention to. I was busy eating bon-bons, watching soaps, mourning and raising 2 babies while resenting all of the above.
So they charged me an amazingly embarrassing & greedy percentage of interest; once again and still, I had other things on my plate and this one issue just rolled off.
Then I discovered, circa 2005, that the only debtor in the universe that has the autoriTAY to garnish Social Security earnings is, viola!, the IRS.
They've garnished monthly 70$ for more than 3 years. Last year I had the honor of paying down the debt through my first tax return, nearly 3,000$. They continue garnishing and kept last year's return, another 3,000$.
I guess they finally got enough.
The monster may indeed be sated.
I got a tax refund check for $121.18;
of which .07$ is returned interest.
There is a God and one day he visited the IRS.
True story, kids.
I just got another way to afford the rent on the new house.
Oh YEAH!