A curious individual asked me, via Facebook, what I thought about this Bloomberg article on Facebook’s “multibillion-dollar tax break.” Even though Facebook (FB) reported $1.1 billion in pre-tax profits from U.S. operations in 2012, it will probably pay zero federal and state taxes—and even receive a federal tax refund of about $429 million—according to a [...]

They reduce the booty collected by the state. The state predicts gas tax collected today won’t add up to enough cash to pay for future road projects. Drivers of fuel-efficient cars are spending less at the pump, which means they are paying less in gas tax while driving the same amount of miles. So the [...]

A reader, Michael Manley, sent this GPS map to me (Andover, MA).  

The city of Highland Park, Michigan is surrounded on most sides by Detroit, and a small patch of the city touches the border of Hamtramck. This is the place where Henry Ford’s Highland Park Ford Plant was built in 1909, and Chrysler made its home there until it moved its world headquarters to Oakland County [...]

Amazon.com vs the Taxman is still in the news. Numerous states are still trying to stick their paws into Amazon’s pot to grab some of the company’s dough by nailing it with their sales tax laws. The state of Connecticut passed a new Internet tax law and contends that Amazon had a physical presence because it [...]

Here’s yet another disgusting display of bureaucratic arrogance on the part of the parasitical tax-and-spend state: spending $100M to “green” an old IRS center in Andover. As part of a “green” initiative that helped justify the use of stimulus money, geothermal heating and cooling systems will be installed, according to a news release from the [...]

And you thought you had to pay them? Ridiculous! Senator Harry Reid says, “the government doesn’t force you to pay taxes.” Reid says that he “doesn’t accept the phraseology” that the government “forcefully takes money from you.” Really, I am not joking. Oh … and he says that the reason our system is called a [...]

When the disintegrating state gets desperate, it wants your blood and money. Here is a list of services the state wants to tax in order to try to keep its sinking empire afloat. Note that you have to keep scrolling … and scrolling … and scrolling …… and scrolling. This endless list was compiled by [...]

Newsweek has put together a “Tax Attacks” propaganda piece. The gist of this piece is that Joseph Stack was one of many violent protesters who “believed taxes are unjustified,” and thus reacted with violent actions. Of course, anyone who believes that taxes are unjustified necessarily gets lumped in with all of the mad bombers, shooters, [...]

The large special interests have won again, and you folks all lose. Do you think it is pricey, now, to have your taxes prepared at a place like H&R Block or Jackson Hewitt, or even the smaller Mom-and-Pop tax prep shops? Special interests who stand to profit from this new and corrupt scheme have convinced [...]