Tax Day Videos to Watch While Procrastinating about Filing on Time

Nick Gillespie | April 18, 2011

Today, April 18, is the deadline for filing 2010 taxes.

While you're going Geithner and struggling with last-minute Turbo Tax meltdowns and assorted annoyances, take a break by watching these six Tax Day related vids that total about 10 minutes. New offerings include "47 Ways to Say IRS" and "Why Aren't the Rich Paying 50% in Taxes"; classics include "Taxes - The Price We Pay for Civilization" and "W-2 WTF?!?!: Tax Facts to Make Your Head Explode"; and then there's one featuring Wesley Snipes and Al Capone...

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|4.18.11 @ 4:02AM|#

I would like to point out the hypocrisy of the left-wing nut jobs. If you tell them that nearly half of all American households pay no income tax they scold you for ignoring payroll taxes. However, while they are steaming about GE paying no federal income tax, don't bother mentioning that GE pays payroll taxes.

Amakudari|4.18.11 @ 4:28AM|#

Well, what's more to the point is why GE pays no taxes: regulatory changes Clinton signed, the purchase of Democratic Senators (Rangel and Crowley) and a revolving door policy with the current administration. Republicans feature, of course, and are just as bad on corporate tax shelters, but the meme that Democrats are better needs to die.

rather |4.18.11 @ 5:04AM|#

regulatory changes Clinton signed, the purchase of Democratic Senators (Rangel and Crowley) and a revolving door policy with the current administration.

...and the guy in-between who kept the deal for GE.

Doc S|4.18.11 @ 7:22AM|#

I think you probably could have said "I would like to point out the hipocrisy of [all] nut jobs."

bill|4.18.11 @ 4:52AM|#

WHY DONT OTHER PEOPLE PAY MORE FOR THINGS I USE?!?!?!?!?!

Doc S|4.18.11 @ 7:17AM|#

Magnets! how do they work??????

rather |4.18.11 @ 9:09AM|#

You put them on the fridge and they stick

Doc S.|4.18.11 @ 9:28AM|#

I take it you aren't a mormon

Politicians|4.18.11 @ 5:09AM|#

but if we had a flat-tax for business, who would pay for our hookers, and blow?

Doc S|4.18.11 @ 7:19AM|#

While I support this comment, i believe the rap industry and rich white kids can keep those two vital portions of our economy running.

Hookers and blow for everyone!!!

Restoras|4.18.11 @ 8:05AM|#

"Hookers and blow for everyone!!!"

or, "A Chicken in Every Pot!"

Monica|4.18.11 @ 5:31AM|#

Big deal, if you get syphilis working for the Obama administration. Working for the Clinton administration ruins your clothing!

NotSure|4.18.11 @ 6:33AM|#

Ah taxes, the price of civilization. So the more one pays the more civilization one gets, at 50% taxation one gets 50% civilization, at 100% one gets 100% civilization.

rather|4.18.11 @ 6:55AM|#

you don't sound too sure

rather|4.18.11 @ 7:03AM|#

I am trying to be witty and clever, please be patient when instead I am actually a dim wit, I am still trying to learn.

rather|4.18.11 @ 7:13AM|#

Good morning my little spoof. Did you check my blog this morning hoping I left you a message? You don't have to! FUCK OFF!!!!

rather|4.18.11 @ 7:17AM|#

Please ignore, that spoof spoof, I don't swear like that, I am tolerant of others.

rather|4.18.11 @ 8:07AM|#

Where the f*ck are my meds????

Old Mexican|4.18.11 @ 12:27PM|#

Re: NotSure,

Ah taxes, the price of civilization.

Taxes Are What We Pay To Wreck Civilization

Taxes and Politics - Thomas Sowell

Someone once said that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. That may have been true when he said it, but today taxes are mostly the price we pay so that politicians can play Santa Claus and get reelected.

That's not the worst of it. We may think of taxes as just a source of government revenue. But tax rates are a big political statement on the left, whether they bring in any revenue or not.

For more than 80 years, the political left has opposed what they call "tax cuts for the rich." But big cuts in very high tax rates ended up bringing in more revenue to the government in the Coolidge, Kennedy, Reagan and Bush 43 administrations. This included more – repeat, more – tax revenue from people in the highest income brackets than before.

That was because high-income people took their money out of tax shelters like municipal bonds and invested where they could get a higher rate of return, after these returns were not being taxed as much. This has happened repeatedly, over so many decades, in administrations of both parties, that you might think this would put an end to the "tax cuts for the rich" demagoguery.

But the same rhetoric that "progressives" like Senator Bob La Follette used against tax cuts in the 1920s is still going strong in the 21st century. When you point out to today's "progressives" that "the rich" paid more total tax revenue to the government after what were called "tax cuts for the rich," that doesn't make a dent.

After all, "the rich" paid that larger sum of taxes only because their incomes had risen. Their paying a higher share of all taxes doesn't matter to the "progressives," who see high tax rates as a way to take a bigger bite out of the incomes of higher-income people, not just provide more revenue to the government.

Tax rates are meant to make an ideological statement and promote class-warfare politics, not just bring in revenue.

Statist fucks do not intend to bring in more revenue from taxation, that's a lie and they know it.

Fist of Etiquette|4.18.11 @ 7:27AM|#

Kent Brockman: Sir, why did you wait until the last minute to pay your taxes?
Otto: Taxes? Isn't this the line for Metallica?
Kent Brockman: Sir, uh, why did you wait until the last minute to pay your taxes?
Krusty the Clown: Because I'm an idiot! Happy?
Kent Brockman: [back to the camera] Of course, not everyone is an idiot.

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