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Random Elvis Tax Trivia

7 March 2011

Yes, you read the title right… If you follow the blog regularly, you know that I’m a little bit obsessed with Elvis. At any rate, this weekend, I *may or may not* have been listening to the all Elvis channel on the radio and heard that Saturday marked the date that Elvis received his discharge [...]

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How The Federal Government Spends Your Tax Dollars

17 October 2010

I know the blogosphere was all aflutter recently about the idea of a “tax receipt” that shows where your actual tax dollars go. Notwithstanding the actual effort that would take to make happen (and clearly, we don’t want to ask IRS to do even more), it’s a good idea to know where your dollars go. [...]

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Ask the taxgirl: Swiss Military

8 July 2009

From just this morning! Taxpayer asks: I was going to leave a comment on your post this morning but it’s more of a question. Is it true that the Swiss do not have a military? I ask because I thought that all of these countries that losing tax money to the Swiss are the ones [...]

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Your tax dollars at work

19 February 2009

Transparency. President Obama swears that this will be a priority in his new administration. As a step in that direction, you can visit recovery.gov and see (or so they say) exactly where your tax dollars are being spent as part of the stimulus package. For now, as explained in the video, the numbers are projections [...]

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