“For people still trying to get someone to do their return by April 15th, think. In my case, you are dealing with someone who has been working 80+ hour weeks for 3 months. I’ve only had a dozen meals in that time that didn’t come out of a drive thru bag.” From the blog Our [...]

“April 15, baby.” Probably not the favorite video the tea party set…

20 Best Blogs for Tax Advice, according to CareerOverview.com.

From the blog Birds & Bills: Thrashing my way through the financial morass: How to celebrate the anniversary of screwing up your taxes: Do it again “We have a letter from the IRS saying we owe them money!” is not what you want to hear when you pick up the phone to answer a call [...]

A California voter initiative to legalize marijuana has officially qualified for the November ballot. From the web site Ballotpedia: Supporters of legalization are focusing on the benefits they say would flow to the state from taxing marijuana; when marijuana is illegal, it is not taxed. If it was legal, the government would be able to [...]

Of all the dysfunctional state governments, California’s may be at the top. California has a $20 billion budget deficit, but the state cannot raise taxes or pass a budget without a 2/3 majority vote in the state legislature. That law was enshrined in the state constitution in 1978 through Proposition 13, which also capped property [...]

From a recent post titled “What Are These Three Numbers” on the economics blog Econbrowser comes this chart:

These numbers, represented in billions of 2010 dollars, were taken from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.

Ted McCagg is a former advertising creative director that posts daily drawings on the Web. This one cracked me up.

A guest blogger on MomLogic discusses Joe Stack’s suicidal, murderous airplane crash into an IRS building in relation to her own problems with the IRS. After Joe Stack crashed his plane into an IRS building in Austin — killing himself and another person — his daughter, Samantha Bell, said he acted as a “hero” who [...]

This article from the Denver Post a couple of weeks ago about the dire financial straits the city of Colorado Springs finds itself in has touched off quite a debate on the Web. The city, a Republican stronghold and bastion of anti-tax ideology, voted against an amendment last year to increase its extremely low property [...]