March 4, 2010
             In about seven years from now, Social Security is expected to start paying out more than it collects in payroll taxes, according to the 2009 Annual Report from the Social Security and Medicare Board of Trustees.  We hear there is currently a surplus, which will be gone by 2037.  The well is running [...]

February 25, 2010
             Notwithstanding the hallowed tradition of “separation of church and state,” Obama recently proclaimed his “agnosticism,” with reference to the notion of raising taxes on folks making less than $250,000–a notion which all will recall he scrupulously disclaimed during the election process.  Now, suddenly, he “can’t know” whether tax increases make sense or [...]

October 15, 2009
            So you say your kids are scofflaws, irresponsible and/or don’t need that inheritance from you anyway? And you  don’t particularly want to leave all the dough to charity. So, what’s a bloke to do?
            Why, leave it to the dog, of course. And you wouldn’t be the first to do so. Business Week reported recently that [...]

October 8, 2009
              And it’s not a pretty picture–not pretty at all. What was that adage about those who forget the failed policies recorded by history are doomed to repeat them…or something like that?
             So saith Arthur Laffer–a guy who probably knows a little about history, not to mention economics. In a recent Wall Street [...]

September 17, 2009
             Recent word from the Treasury Department provides just a little encouragement to folks with big mortgages to file income tax returns, for starters, and to make sure that they make sense. Big mortgage implies big income, and that better be evident on the return!

September 10, 2009
Put this in your pipe and smoke it:  the Revenooers could become the chief enforcement agency under the Obama-proposed health care regime!
            As noted in recent reportage by the Washington Examiner, if proposals now on the table eventually get enacted, the IRS would become the main agency for determining who has an “acceptable” [...]

            And hopefully thereby “improving voluntary compliance.”
            Heard that one before?
            So here they came again, last week, with yet another grandiose plan full of platitudes and supposed accomplishments, and plans for the next round of spending your dough in an effort to collect even more of it.