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Taxes Kill People

Leroy Baker of Tax News. Com reports that car crash deaths increase on tax filing  day. The Journal of American Medical Association did a study and found that traffic deaths have increased an average of 6% each tax filing day for the last thirty years. If it’s fair to say that Republicans want to push…

In Your Face Governor Tells Undertaxed Billionaire to Pay Up or Shut Up

Chris Christie’s in-your -face-I-don’t-take-no-crap-from-anyone schtick is getting old. If I hear him tell some John or Jane Doe to shut up and mind their own business again, I think I’ll lose a gasket. But Warren Buffett’s woe-is-me-I-am-so-undertaxed schtick has gotten even older. So, I was pleasantly pleased when I heard the rotund Governor smack down the octogenerian Ukelele player…

Synopsis of Two Weeks of Super Bowl Pre-Game Analysis

Timothy H. Tebow! If I have to listen to another pseudo-expert assert the patently obvious as if it were an epiphany, I think I’ll projectile vomit. Here’s a quick synopsis of 300 plus hours of expert pre-game “analysis”: Turnovers are key Defense must put pressure on QB Game will be won in trenches Team that wants it most will win…

The Guy Who Wants to Raise Taxes on the Rich

“When you’re rich they think you really know.” – Fiddler on the Roof – The left thinks we should listen to this guy on tax issues:

Compassionate Liberal Alec Baldwin Shows How Much He Cares about the 99%

Alec Baldwin is a compassionate liberal who regularly accuses Republicans of being hateful, selfish and greedy. Apparently, Mr. Baldwin thinks this makes it okay for him to call his 13 year old daughter a rude, thoughtless little pig and treat lowly flight attendants like trash. Yahoo! Buzz Log has the latest: The brouhaha surrounding Alec Baldwin, who claims…

Supporters of Tax Scofflaw Ai Weiwei Expose Their Wee Wees

From Kelly Phillips-Erb aka TaxGirl: Talk about the naked truth. Fans of beleaguered artist Ai Weiwei have tapped the power of the internet to show their support… by posing naked. Ai Weiwei was charged with tax evasion earlier this year, a charge that he claims is related to his outspoken criticism of the Chinese government.…

Top 50% get 100% Percent of the Income Tax Breaks

Now this is awfully unfair to the bottom 50% of Americans, don’t you think? I mean, what kind of a society treats its most vulnerable citizens this way? Surely, the Occupy Wall Streeters will start focusing on this horrifying inequity, right? Oh, wait. I almost forgot. The bottom 50% don’t pay any income tax at all. Nevermind.

Hilarious Video: Wall Street Protester Demands to be Arrested

A wall street protester named Robert Stephens – we know he spells it with a “ph” and not a “v” because he hilariously pauses his passionate protest to make sure that the press knows how to spell his name - demands to be arrested because “the bank took my parents’ home.” This is how I behaved when I was…

El Maestro Defends Himself

The Maestro has published a suprisingly controlled response to my post titled Are You an Idiot if You Use Social Media?  Apart from a final parting shot at me, his post Setting the Record Straight is conspicuously devoid of the nasty and mean-spirited generalizations about others that have been the hallmark of his prior screeds. In previous posts I published direct quotes…

Obama’s Ransom Note

Joe Taxpayer posted this provocative editorial cartoon under the title “A Ransom Note?”

Government Efficiency

Why the New York Times is Going Broke: Exhibit “A”

The following two sentences are taken verbatim from Saturday’s New York Times editorial: [Tom] DeLay, the Texas Republican who had been the House majority leader, crowed that he had been “found innocent.” But many of Mr. DeLay’s actions remain legal only because lawmakers have chosen not to criminalize them. This is a stunningly brilliant deduction, don’t you think? Good Lord!…

If Taxes are a Deterrent to Sin, what Does the Income Tax Deter?

Here’s little tax rap video I found on YouTube. Very clever:

BP Oil Spill Caption Contest: We Have a Winner!

And the winner is… Chris, who gave us this caption: “Boy, I sure do miss community organizing.” I bet he does, Chris. You can find the other excellent entries here.

Stupid Tax Criminals

This may be the dumbest idea since the firebox trap.¹ WebCPA reports that a woman was charged with attempting to bribe an IRS official with $2,000, a package containing promissory notes and a $100 Starbucks gift card: Kim Oahn Thi Tran, also known as Jennifer Kim Tran, was charged in a San Francisco federal court, according to…