I must draw my readers’ attention to this brilliant column at American Tribune, a site of which I was unaware until yesterday. The pseudonymous commentator tells a terrible tale, a narration of how what we once justifiably called Great Britain ruined itself with a foolish policy. It’s a story that is: Meticulously accurate in …
Category: taxation
Jul 30 2024
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes Dept.
Did you really think IRS employees are honest about their own taxes? At least 5,800 IRS employees and contractors owe almost $50 million in overdue taxes and more than half of them haven’t been required to agree to a payment plan, according to the Department of the Treasury’s Inspector-General for Tax Administration (TIGTA). …
Jun 25 2024
The Message Is Plain
There are no property rights in the United States…at least, none that the State deigns to honor. Do you remember Teresa Ghilarducci? I do. Any American who has a 401(k), an IRA, or some equivalent should know about her and her chief ambition: Democrats in the U.S. House have been conducting hearings …
Feb 28 2024
What Is Caesar’s And What Is Mine?
Pro-freedom journalist John Stossel has a plaintive piece up today about that special feature of this time of year. After all, it’s the season when a young man’s fancy turns to what his wife, fiancée, or Significant Other never stops thinking about: what’s in his wallet – and I don’t mean his Capital One …
Nov 11 2023
This Is The Era Of Graphics And Videos
When Lysander Spooner wrote this: The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road side, and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets. But the robbery is none the less a robbery on that account; and it is far more …
Aug 12 2023
Ingenious!
Your Curmudgeon has kept the myrmidons of the Internal Revenue Service at bay through the expedient of doing his tax returns in Norse runes and Roman numerals. (Yes, this is legal.) However, other approaches have always been of interest. The following suggestion is exceptionally striking, and potentially highly consequential: If you’re ordered to …
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