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Jihad Grover vs Open Borders Saxby
Georgia They’re fighting over the “pledge.” Like I told you a year and a half ago, political candidate pledges of any sort are stupid, even if I happen to agree with the content of the pledge. I...
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I Feel Like a Million Bucks
Your Blogmeister’s Desk But then…some deductions. I FEEL LIKE: $1,000,000.00 **************************************** F.I.T.: $394,826.47 S.I.T.: $ 59,006.02 L.I.T.: $ 10,000.00 FICA: $ 76,500.00...
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Fiscal Bill
America There shouldn’t be as much as one Democrat worried about “going over the fiscal cliff.” All it would mostly mean is re-instituting what were the marginal income tax rates during the Clinton...
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“Confiscation of Property of Emigrants and Rebels”
USSA Some big time red ink states might “go there.” I don’t think SCOTUS would let an actual emigrant tax fly for interstate commerce/restraint of trade/substantive due process concerns. But as Rush...
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Fair Isn’t Fair
Omaha As part of the latest “fiscal cliff” deal, Warren Buffett pays not a dime in new taxes, while his secretary will. UPDATE 1/4 Maybe he will, or least he should legally speaking. See the comments...
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Mexifornia Here We Go
Sacramento California will soon do to its ex-residents what New York State has been doing to many of its ex-residents for years, Rush Limbaugh most famous among them. And you won’t have to be an...
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Phil’s Got It All, Except…
San Diego My favorite golfer is a bit lacking in the common sense department. You may think you can move out of California, but California isn’t going to move out of you.
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White Collar
Metro East White collar crime, brought to you by people whose images you don’t think of when you think about white collar crime: Four Metro East residents have been indicted for filing false tax...
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Twenty-Five
Chicago Oh wow. Twenty-five cents. Wow. I hope it doesn’t break the bastards. Meanwhile, in Crook County, there was recently enacted a twenty-five dollar tax per handgun sales tax (actually, a...
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Well Organized
Facebook H/T Steve Sailer I’m looking at this study of the predictability of Facebook “likes.” They say “liking” accountants is a trait of the well organized. F-U-C-K T-H-A-T. Believe me, there are...
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Her Crossed Fingers
Chicago P-D: Don’t fall for costly tax-refund anticipation loans, Illinois AG warns The Illinois attorney general’s office is warning the public to be on the lookout for the high cost of tax-refund...
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Slavery Card
Newark, New Jersey “But, but, but…Slavery.” Sorry, dear. That card will ordinarily get you very far in B.R.A., but taxes are the only things for which the Yankee government does not have an...
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Not a Mid-Level Bureaucratic SNAFU
IRS AP blows through the “but it was only low level employees” excuse. This part is interesting, though: Shulman was appointed by President George W. Bush, a Republican. His 6-year term ended in...
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I Admit
California Yes, gay America. It was all a diabolical trick on our part to get you to pay more taxes.
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No Mo Money
Memphis You just knew there was at least one Federal felony hiding in there somewhere. Yeah, like I would really trust a firm with an Ebonics name with my personal financial well being. Now it’s time...
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Reading Material
Utah A tax reform plan that heavily benefits married couples with children. Reading between the lines, white working and middle class families would disproportionately benefit, with the biggest benefit...
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Rock Check, You Lose
Washington, D.C. Who’s the snarky blogmeister who’s been saying that governments are going to get so hard up financially that they’re simply going to refuse to mail out tax refund checks, and therefore...
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Tax Act
Jefferson City The “severe” tax cut bill that Jay Nixon vetoed today? It would have cut the top income tax rate down from 6% to 5.5% starting in 2017. Remember that that rate starts at $9,000 a year,...
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“You Mean I Actually Have to Pay All the Taxes I Voted For?”
Austin You got it, dear. This is right up there with “those filthy rednecks down South in trailer parks.”
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Economic Man
Amurrika This sounded good, until I got to the details. The pesky detail is that Alter thinks that “loyalty to America” means nothing more than paying taxes to the Leviathan based in Washington, D.C....
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