Paul Caron’s Day By Day IRS Scandal Has Jumped The Shark – Part 1
The numbering starts on Day 5 (May 14,2013) with a collection of posts including a video of President Obama throwing his purported minions under the bus. On Day 27, the precedent is set that will allow the scandal to continue indefinitely as a TIGTA report on conference spending becomes part of the narrative. The Treasury Inspector General For Tax Administration is one of the many Inspector Generals in the federal government. The thing about internal auditors is that if they don’t find something, they think they are not doing their job. Every TIGTA report will henceforth have a shot at becoming part of the scandal narrative.
Boston Bernie Backers Probably Not Bashing Bruins
Of course what fans care about is whether their teams are winning or in the case of Boston fans also whether the New York teams they hate are losing. The people promoting the high state income taxes are bad for your hockey team theory might be disappointed how last season went. At the top of three divisions were teams from really bad tax environments (New York, Montreal and Anaheim). If you took the trouble to correlate goals scored with friendliness of the tax environment, you would find the relationship was inverse.
If I was going to construct an ideological explanation for that apparent anomaly, it would be that people who are heavily influenced by the local tax environment in spite of individual excellence, might not be great team players.
In the end despite the warning of Americans For Tax Reform. Boston fans can rest easy for now about the Bernie backers promoting the millionaire tax. It really might not be such a hot idea, but the all important fate of our professional sports teams probably does not hinge on it.
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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.