I always resist the term “Free” when it was attached to government services. After all, those services aren’t really free - someone is paying for them. It can be either my tax money, or someone else tax money. But the appeal of increasing government services, and the notion that they are given for free, is [...]
It is often said that Lottery is tax on stupidity. I think that this is pretty much proves it:
Hoover, a business professor at Washington and Lee University in Virginia, wasn’t surprised when his tickets didn’t bring him the $75,000 grand prize, but he was shocked to learn the top prize had been awarded before he [...]
Why should my tax money fund something that is very offensive for me? something like this for example:
American taxpayers are paying for a Middle Eastern television network that broadcast an anti-Israeli diatribe as recently as last month, a joint investigation by 60 Minutes and ProPublica reveals. This, despite the fact that Al Hurra management promised [...]
One thing that you learn serving in the Israeli army, and I believe in many other armies as well, is that the best type of leadership is leadership by example. If you want your subordinate to do something you have to do it yourself. I also believe it apply when educating children, and it is [...]
Sometimes I do agree with our elected leaders. Here, for example, I agree with one of the architect of the disastrous Farm Bill - this Bill is very hard to justify…
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin C. Peterson (D-Minn.) acknowledged that the payments are “very hard to explain to our urban colleagues.” But negotiators, under pressure [...]
I guess that Wesley Snipes knows now that taxes aren’t really voluntary after all….
Happy Tax Freedom Day
We, in NY state, actually need to wait until May 5th - but I don’t mind congratulate those who are finished working for the tax collectors.
When Tzvika, an Israeli fellow blogger, came to visit in NY he had one request - that I’ll take him to the FDR Library. I still wonder if he enjoyed the library as much as he enjoyed seeing me suffering and ranting about how evil FDR, and his like, was. This link is dedicated to [...]
If we are busy changing the names of things, why should we try to hide their true meaning instead of calling them for what they are: Armed Rubbery? The suggestion is as ridicules as the believe that people despise taxes because of the name, and not because of what they are paying. This is so [...]
Today, in commemoration of the date, our collected links will be about our taxes and how they are being allocated:
When executives in the private sector engage in accounting games, resulting in loss of their investors money, they can end up in jail. However, instead of applying the same rules, or even tougher standards to the [...]