{"id":56,"date":"2008-04-16T02:08:17","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T06:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=56"},"modified":"2013-03-17T14:51:17","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T18:51:17","slug":"happy-happy-tax-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/happy-happy-tax-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Happy Tax Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

And once again we celebrate the Ides of April. This weekend James Maxey had a (mostly) amusing tax-related post about the National Debt on his blog. I especially liked his idea to levy a “too much fame” tax, though the effective tax rate seems a bit draconian:<\/p>\n

We could have a vote each year of the celebrities we’re most tired of hearing about. Then, we’d just go and grab everything from the top ten folks on that list. Britney would be too broke to afford her brazilian waxes after a few votes. Rush Limbaugh could no longer afford to hire a housekeeper to score hillbilly heroin from. If you’re a baseball player caught up in a steriod scandal at the same time you’re closing in on a home run record, well, you’d better hope there are ten people more loathed than you are this year. If you do manage to get rich, you’d learn to keep your head low. The new rule would be, you can be famous, or you can be rich, but it’s dangerous to have too much of both. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nThe post is called “The Ten Trillion Pound Gorilla,”<\/a> and as I said I found it mostly amusing. I didn’t think his get-rid-of-the-military idea was very funny; as might be expected from my personal history, it raised my hackles a bit. I’ll leave it at that.<\/p>\n

Continuing with the tax theme, I thought my “Direct Deposit”<\/a> tax scheme from last year had at least the merit of being original, if not being a little amusing too. And if your frustration with Tax Day has you looking for a write-in candidate for any office — from school board on up, anywhere in the country — you’re welcome to check out the Anti-Candidate’s position on taxes<\/a>. We won’t promise to make it any better, but we won’t promise to make it any worse, either. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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