Forced to Take a Car at Gunpoint?

Although I'm not a big Oprah fan - mainly for her glossing over of women in Islam with her deceitful interview with Queen Rania of Jordan - her car givaway seems to have left some people whining about having to pay taxes on the 'winnings'.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports that some of the people just can't deal with paying the taxes on the car.

"As I was standing up there, the responsible portion of me said, 'This is very nice, but where am I going to get the money for the taxes.'"

Well here's a hot tip for your responsible rear end, tell them to give the car away to charity, or perhaps just not accept it. It is quite strange to hear all these people whining about a car offer for them that basically ends up as a 75% off sale being turned into something undesirable.

People really need to look at themselves when they say things like, "We have to pick the car up between Oct. 1, 2004, and Feb. 28, 2005," said Nelson. "We've decided that we are going to wait until the first of the year so we can have all of 2005 and the first four months of 2006 to figure out how to pay for this."

Figure out? Well, you can either get a loan, or just not take the car. It all seems pretty simple to me. Waaaaah!