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Illegal immigrants must file with the IRS. They don’t have Social Security numbers. But they have another number: the ITIN. So, they file. They list children and nieces and nephews as dependents. But these dependents live in Mexico. The IRS sends them tax refunds. How large are these refunds? Anywhere from $10,000 to $14,000 in [...]
Continue reading →When we teach our children, we learn. How should we teach them about taxes? One way is to compare them with more familiar expenses. The Tax Foundation does this. In a recent report, it used this example. The total U.S. tax burden of $4 trillion is greater than what Americans spent on housing, food, and [...]
Continue reading →The IRS needed more money in order to enforce Obamacare. It will get half a billion dollars by September. That should suffice for a year or so. Maybe. If the Supreme Court strikes down this monstrosity, will the IRS give the money back? I doubt it. This is only a fraction of the money sent [...]
Continue reading →President Obama is running scared. His supreme welfare state law — rammed through by Nancy Pelosi — is going to be struck down, 5 to 4, by the Supreme Court. He is desperately trying to stop them. He is using the only real skill he has: rhetoric. He has a law degree. The old rule [...]
Continue reading →We have all seen men standing at street corners who are holding a sign: “Will Work for Food.” It’s nonsense, of course. They could get fast food jobs. They are really after handouts of money, not food. People diving by don’t have food in their cars. So they give some change. The food stamp program [...]
Continue reading →It looks as though Obamacare is going down. Five Supreme Court members will declare it unconstitutional. Anyway, that’s what the pundits think. Why will they do this? Justice Scalia’s broccoli argument. If the government can force us to buy health care, why can’t it force us to eat broccoli? I love this. It shows the [...]
Continue reading →It is becoming clear that the compulsory medical insurance section of Obamacare is going to be declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. The vote will be 5 to 4. The fact that four justices will vote for it is indicative of just how far we have moved down the road to tyranny. Already, the liberal [...]
Continue reading →This does not happen often. Abut $500 million in unspent funds was returned to the U.S. Treasury. The reason why all of the authorized money is usually spend is because the bureaucrats know that the budget will be cut next year if all of the money is not spent this year. The money was half [...]
Continue reading →Los Angeles has its own $1,000,000 yacht. It costs close to $300,000 a year to staff it. It needs about $700,000 in upgrades. The city’s bureaucrats in charge tried to avoid a reporter’s questions. It didn’t work. Yes, it’s a boondoggle. There are probably millions of them in America. But this one is photogenic. What [...]
Continue reading →The government has a problem. Most Americans realize that sticking a gun in someone’s belly and telling him to hand over his wallet is a crime. It’s also immoral. That is what the welfare state does. But it justifies this because Congress voted for it. Add a badge to a gun, and theft becomes legal. [...]
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