Today, we celebrate the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. To honor the day, I am reposting something that I wrote around this time three years
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Who Stole The Green Movement?
Today, more than 500 elementary school students in our local public school hauled recyclable bags filled with more recyclable plastic bags to school to mark
Read MorePerry Wants You to Know That Romney Is Rich: Do You Care?
Let’s say that you have a shot at your dream job. You’ve done your homework, you’ve put in the hours, you’ve managed to get through
Read MoreI’m From The Government And I’m Here To Help
Twenty-five years ago, pop singer Michael Jackson was in the news. Big shoulder pads were all the rage. Libya was under siege. Federal spending outpaced
Read MoreThe Post I Swore I Wouldn’t Write
I wasn’t going to write this post. I thought about it long and hard and I had promised myself that I wouldn’t write it because
Read MoreDebt Ceiling? What Debt Ceiling?
I’ve received a lot of emails lately asking me to explain what the debt ceiling is and what it really means. It seems that it’s
Read MoreTaxation Without Representation: Setting The Stage For Independence
Today, kids will decorate wagons with streamers and drag them down small town streets while big marching bands play John Philip Sousa tunes. There will
Read MoreDeduct This: History Of The IRA Deduction
Remember Studebaker? Studebaker was a manufacturing company that started in 1852 in South Bend, Indiana, making wagons for farmers, miners, and the military. Ten years
Read MoreDeduct This: History Of The Tax Attorney’s Fees Deduction
Wait? You mean that you didn’t know that there was such a thing as the tax attorney’s fees deduction? Well, perhaps that’s because it’s not
Read MoreDeduct This: The History Of The Medical Expenses Deduction
When you ask most taxpayers about available tax deductions, the deduction for medical expenses immediately springs to mind. It’s probably one of the most talked
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