Citizen vs. Government (Vol. 3)
Even more depressing answers to simple questions
Income tax
As Delayed Tax Day Approaches, Consider What You Get for Your Money
Do you appreciate the incompetence, in-fighting, obstructionism, authoritarianism, and waste that you pay for?
Federal Tax Deadline Extended Until July 15
The extension allows some individuals and businesses to keep more of their money for three extra months at a time when millions of Americans are likely to be out of work and struggling to make ends meet.
Texas Voters Ban State Income Taxes. Again.
Some 76 percent of Texas voters approved a constitutional amendment that prohibits the state from imposing any income tax.
Illinois Passes Constitutional Amendment to Allow a Progressive Income Tax
Voters will decide next year whether to impose it.
Happy Tax Day! Here Are 6 Infuriating Ways the Government Spends Your Money
Surprised? Yeah, neither are we.
Starve the Tax Man
Americans are increasingly reluctant to pay the IRS. Who can blame them?
Stossel: Tax Myths
Rep Ocasio-Cortez and her progressive followers think taxing the rich at 70% will bring in lots of tax money. It won't.
Libertarian Candidate Will Almost Certainly Be Blamed as 'Spoiler' in Georgia Gubernatorial Race
In one of the country's highest-profile campaigns, featuring Democratic heartthrob Stacey Abrams vs. Trumpian Secretary of State Brian Kemp, Ted Metz is likely pulling enough votes away to force a runoff.
Four Blue States Scream 'Federalism' and Sue to Stop Changes in Federal Tax Deductions
New York gets salty over new limits because now the rich will know they're being soaked.
Seattle's Income Tax Ruled Illegal
The city council's desire to 'tax the rich' collided with the plain text of Washington state law.
California Tried to Seize Millions of This Inventor's Fortune. He Fought Back. And Won.
Gilbert Hyatt's 25-year legal battle is a story of greed, harassment, anti-semitism, and the abuse of power.
Irwin Schiff, R.I.P.
Man who argued there is no legal obligation to pay income tax dies of cancer shackled to prison hospital bed at age 87.
Does Rising Income Inequality Justify Class Warfare?
Meanwhile U.S. intergenerational income mobility has not slowed.
Scrap the Welfare State and Give People Free Money
A guaranteed income would reduce the humiliations of the current welfare system while promoting individual responsibility.
North Carolina Republicans Looking to Abolish State Income Tax
Would be eighth state to do so
The Legacy of Frank Lautenberg
The late Sen. Frank Lautenberg's true legacy is one of entrepreneurship.
An Open Letter to President Reagan
The income tax, Mr. President, is the issue—not harassment by the tax police, not "bracket creep," not loopholes for the rich, but the very income tax itself.