The most disturbing factoid that I learned on Tax Day was that the average American must now spend a full twenty-four hours filling out tax forms. That's three work days. Or, think of it this way: if you had to put in two hours per night after dinner to finish your taxes, that's two weeks (with Sundays off). I saw a talking head economics professor on some Philly TV channel pontificating about how Americans procrastinate. He was laughing. The IRS guy they interviewed actually said, "Tick, tick, tick." You have to wonder if Governor Ruth Ann Minner and her cohorts put in twenty-four hours pondering whether or not to give Kraft Foods $708,000 of our State taxes while demanding that school districts return $8-10 million each?
“A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.” -- Charles Wheelan, "Naked Economics"
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If the Iranians nuke Tel Aviv, 500,000 dead Israelis, Israel's defense forces cripled, the country and the Jewish race on the verge of extinction, does the United States sit back and take the Neville Chamberlain/Obama/Ron Paul approach and cry "none of our business"?
This is Delaware and Israel is not our fourth county.
MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) is still in effect.