Lucky

3 older brothers here.

I'd pay for that tbh 😉 

God, I wish I liked her.
So many things she says are spot on and I think she’s a talented singer.
But whenever I see her perform, I just wanna get away as fast as I can.
I can’t really explain it. It just is.

Very sorry to hear you're seriously struggling Ryan.  I remember when I discovered my studied field, environmental engineering, looked like it was never going to be what I hoped.  It was difficult.
But you were already having difficulties, and as you know, the blow to your identity just compounded the problem.  You're doing all the right things, so, have you tried medication?  If so, how was the expereince?  If it was bad, or unhelpful, would you consider trying another one?  Remember anti-depressants and anti-anxiety medications are temporary, so consider considering them if you haven't.  

3 older brothers here.

Oh God, I hope it’s me!

Last year seniors got a break with Schedule R, but this year is is people who borrowed money for college getting the break. I paid my debts, but had I known the government would wipe them out I wouldn't have.

Who knew that you could get pseudoephedrine from the pharmacist? @Charliedidn't, and I'd say he is an otherwise informed consumer. Since he didn't know it, he was "forced" to buy the stuff that didn't work.
I agree, forced may be too strong of a word, but in an effort to stop a few drug dealers, a whole lot of people bought the stuff that didn't work.

People were forced to buy phenylephrine so that drug dealers couldn't get pseudoephidrine so easily. A useless drug exchanged for one that actually works. Using Sudafed to make meth has been surpassed with other methods.

There could be many different reasons.   I handle taxes for two elderly people who make less that 85,000 per year but their taxes were both up slightly due to higher income from CD’s and MMF’s due to higher interest rates. 

Members have stated this fact many times in this very long thread.
As a constant reader, poster, and commenter on these forums, you should probably have known about the best hours before you went to Barcelona. 

I put off tax law until my last semester in law school because I was so sure that I would hate it. To my surprise, I loved it and wished I had started sooner so I could become a tax lawyer. I have done my own taxes ever since.
Now I use programs like Turbo Tax and Taxslayer. With the addition of a small side business, my taxes are harder. Last year I used Taxslayer and didn't seem to have any problem. This year I cannot figure out what they are doing It seems like I am going around in circles. They currently have me owing more than $2000 in federal taxes than I paid last year despite a similar income. I am just lost.
So I come here, where else? Does anyone recommend one of these programs and why? Anyone want to do my taxes for me? I guess I am too old now. Sigh.

I'm pretty sure something else is at work here, as my research indicates that, if anything, one might expect to pay fewer taxes for 2023 than 2022 if one's income remained the same because there was an inflationary adjustment to tax brackets.  The individual income tax cuts made when Trump was in office expire at the end of 2025.
So, I'm guessing one or more of the following is true:
Your total (adjusted gross) income wasn't actually the same in 2023 as in 2022.
Your tax is the same but you had less withheld or made less quarterly estimated tax payments, and what you really mean is that you owe $2,000 more with your return for last year, not that your overall taxes are $2,000 higher.
Data entry error.  I have to say that while the various tax programs I've tried are great for relatively straight-forward returns, if you have one thing that doesn't apply to the vast majority of taxpayers then the program might not do a good job of guiding you through the data entry for that.  The program I use doesn't properly call attention to one tax credit I'm eligible for, and every year after the "interview" portion is done I have to use the search function in the program to guide me to the screen where I enter the data to get that tax credit. 

Not an expert and may be talking out of my butthole but I believe the 2017 tax package giving 1.8 trillion to the wealthy also included a clause that taxes would go up this year and again in 2027 (?) for middle income earners. It's an offset for the millionaire tax gift. 

I know nothing about doing my own taxes so I go to my CPA (who charges $275 for a simple tax return with no itemizations).  Anyhow, I had my appointment two weeks ago with him, and I owed* quite a bit more in fed taxes than I did the year before, even though nothing changed in my income. He explained to me that EVERYONE owed more this year due to a change in taxes in 2023, which not many people were aware of until they filed this year. As he said, "It snuck up on everyone - including him."  So it may not be you doing anything wrong - it's just the tax laws which have changed slightly.
 
*I might have said this before, but I will say it again. Years ago, when I was just starting out with my own business as a 'D/B/A', my CPA said it's always best to owe the feds money each April, rather than get a big refund. As he said, 'Why get a refund of a few thousand dollars ?  Why let the Feds use your extra thousands and then return it to you with no interest accumulated ? '  He said it's always best to owe them money - usually $200 or less is perfect (at least for my income).  So each year I owe - usually under $100.  Last year I owed $19.  This year - with the the tax laws changing as I mentioned - I owed $150. 

I do my own taxes, by hand, on paper with a pencil.  I do it both to the penny, and rounding to the dollar, to see which one saves me more.  I now do a Backdoor Roth IRA.  The trick is: I've been doing my taxes by hand every year for the past 16 years, starting before I was an established gentlemen.  With every year I just add one thing new (a new deduction, a new source of income, a new catastrophic IRA withdrawal, etc.).  It's a lot easier to learn just one new thing per year as my finances get more diverse.  I would probably be lost if I was starting to learn it from scratch after already being established.
As for @Lucky's dilemma: I would just mimick @Charlie's habit of using a professional tax prepare and review their printed forms.  It's a lot easier than trying to navigate a software you only use once because it changes every year.

I put off tax law until my last semester in law school because I was so sure that I would hate it. To my surprise, I loved it and wished I had started sooner so I could become a tax lawyer. I have done my own taxes ever since.
Now I use programs like Turbo Tax and Taxslayer. With the addition of a small side business, my taxes are harder. Last year I used Taxslayer and didn't seem to have any problem. This year I cannot figure out what they are doing It seems like I am going around in circles. They currently have me owing more than $2000 in federal taxes than I paid last year despite a similar income. I am just lost.
So I come here, where else? Does anyone recommend one of these programs and why? Anyone want to do my taxes for me? I guess I am too old now. Sigh.

I haven't done my own taxes for many years, because they are so much more complicated than they were when I was young and single and my only income came from my employer. So I took all my documents to our tax CPA's office and handed them over. Yesterday I got an email from the accountant's office, but there were so many attachments and things that I was supposed to do to e-file, that I just called their office this morning and asked them to please print everything up so we could just come in and sign papers with a pen, and write them a check or hand them a credit card. They were very nice about it, and we are going in to sign and seal everything this afternoon. (We started using them several years ago because they quickly developed a local reputation for being very friendly toward same-sex married couples.)

I put off tax law until my last semester in law school because I was so sure that I would hate it. To my surprise, I loved it and wished I had started sooner so I could become a tax lawyer. I have done my own taxes ever since.
Now I use programs like Turbo Tax and Taxslayer. With the addition of a small side business, my taxes are harder. Last year I used Taxslayer and didn't seem to have any problem. This year I cannot figure out what they are doing It seems like I am going around in circles. They currently have me owing more than $2000 in federal taxes than I paid last year despite a similar income. I am just lost.
So I come here, where else? Does anyone recommend one of these programs and why? Anyone want to do my taxes for me? I guess I am too old now. Sigh.

I use Turbo Tax - never had a problem.  There are a few tricky things, like doing a backdoor Roth, which is not intuitive. It is more expensive than it used to be, but I am used to the interface and layout. I've recommended Turbo Tax to friends in the past.  I'd be happy to do your taxes, but I fear you can't afford my rates! 😋

@Lucky you can add live help subscription to Turbo Tax…I’m not familiar with Tax Slayer. I don’t use either but have family members who use Turbo Tax.

I put off tax law until my last semester in law school because I was so sure that I would hate it. To my surprise, I loved it and wished I had started sooner so I could become a tax lawyer. I have done my own taxes ever since.
Now I use programs like Turbo Tax and Taxslayer. With the addition of a small side business, my taxes are harder. Last year I used Taxslayer and didn't seem to have any problem. This year I cannot figure out what they are doing It seems like I am going around in circles. They currently have me owing more than $2000 in federal taxes than I paid last year despite a similar income. I am just lost.
So I come here, where else? Does anyone recommend one of these programs and why? Anyone want to do my taxes for me? I guess I am too old now. Sigh.

I watched this tonight on YouTube. The quality of the video was bad, but the feelings of the AIDS epidemic were real. I lived through it. Oddly, I wasn't as moved tonight as I was when I first saw the movie.

@Ali Gator, There have been several Broadway productions that celebrated the lives of well known singers. 
Some that I enjoyed were: Good Vibrations (Beach Boys), Beautiful (Carole King), Ain’t Too Proud (Temptations), more recently, MJ the Musical (Michael Jackson).  On Your Feet (Gloria Estafan). That one had the audience join a conga line! The Cher Show (Cher), etc. 
I really enjoyed Beautiful Noise. It was a most interesting and informative show. Also, well written and acted. The audience participation didn’t take place till the curtain call. It was a lot of fun! I saw a matinee. Too early for “drunks”. 😂 🥂 

Truthfully Babe Ruth does not compare to Shohei.