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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…

File these Office Cliches in the Circular File

From Suzanne Lucas writing for Yahoo!’s Financially Fit: What corporate jargon are you tired of? Career Builder asked 5,000 workers what corporate buzzwords they’d like to see off the table. Here are the top (or bottom!) phrases that should be banished from the planet: Outside the box (31%) Low-hanging fruit (24%) Synergy (23%) Loop me…

Hambone Says Taxes are Illegal

From time to time I peruse the myriad videos on YouTube of tax protesters making preposterous arguments as to why the federal income tax is illegal. After all, I am human and not above gawking at a freak show every now and then. I also can’t help myself from watching the Democratic National Convention every four years.¹ I assume you…

Tax Protesters Tilt at Windmills: Title 26 Was Never Enacted Therefore the IRS Lacks the Authority to Collect Taxes

I have been harangued recently by a couple of my readers about a very old tax protester argument that they claim has never been refuted. Reader Chad – we’ll call him Don Quixote - frames the argument thusly: The IRS calls everyone who doesn’t fall in lock step with their lies a “tax denier” and every argument “frivolous.”…

Chuck Woolery’s Message to Guilty Rich Folks who Want to Pay More Taxes

This is hilarious: (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin)

A Tax on Dumb People?

Kay Bell says that Scott Adams, the creator of the comic strip Dilbert, wants to impose a tax on stupidity: “I’m just curious as to whether tax policy could make a huge difference in the effectiveness of society by directly taxing stupidity,” Adams wrote on his blog. “Suppose science is applied to the task of…

Government Efficiency

More Silly Taxes

William Baldwin of Forbes gives us some new ridiculous taxes: Herewith, to give you a break from your Form 1040, is a catalog of the country’s looniest taxes. Hat tips to William Barrett, Norml, Ray Squitieri, Stephen Von Worley, Thomson Reuters One Source Tax & Accounting and TurboTax. Arkansas: Body Piercing Tax The state spells…

Accounting Teacher Arrested for Showing Assets to Class

I saw a bumper sticker once that said “Accountants have Great Assets.” Perhaps Raymond Devaughn Taylor was trying to prove the veracity of this statement when he disrobed for his accounting class last week: Cobb County Sheriff’s Office said Raymond Taylor, of Kennesaw, was arrested for allegedly exposing himself to [accounting] students he was teaching at Kennesaw State University.…

Big Government Makes 7 Year Old Lemonade Entrepreneur Cry

Ah, the joys of big government. This one’s from the New York Times: Julie Murphy, a 7-year-old Oregonian, set up a lemonade stand on July 29 at an art fair in northeast Portland. County health inspectors shut her down, however, telling Julie and her mother, Maria Fife, that they needed a temporary restaurant license, which costs…

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:

The Tanning Tax Precedent: What’s Next?

The tanning tax, which will fall disproportionately on blonde bimbos and George Hamilton, went into effect last week and got me wondering what additional industry-targeted taxes the Republicans might propose should they gain power in November. Here are three that readily came to mind: Warning: If you are politically correct and/or lack a sense of humor, skip this part The hair-straightening surtax…

Secret Aramaic Message in Tax Code?

Last week I received this interesting letter from a reader named Kenneth Snipps: June 14, 2010 Pappas & Associates 930 Woodcock Rd Suite 227 Orlando, FL 32803 Dear Sir or Madam, My name is Kenneth and I need your help regarding a tax matter Several months ago my neighbor Mr. Biggs told me there are hidden…

A Chap from Hawaii

There once was a chap from Hawaii Who said he wouldn’t tax high ye. He spent like a drunk, The bottom line shrunk, Now he taxes ye tan and ye Pepsi