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 [...]
Tags: Tax Humor
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 [...]
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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.” [...]
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Tags: Tax Humor
Politico recently published a post about a novel suggestion for how the government might raise revenue: Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit proposed a 50 percent surtax on the post-administration private sector incomes of top government officials and excise taxes on movie tickets, DVDs and digital music downloads. “Then let Hollywood scream about how the tax increase would destroy American jobs,” [...]
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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 [...]
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