Collecting My Thoughts

Mostly I ignore ad hominem attacks on me and other conservatives. They are intended to deflect the really destructive forces the Democrats h...

Oh yes, the tax returns are coming out.  We have a taxpayers Bill of Rights and #7 says you can’t be forced to share your information. But t...

Because of lower taxes, refunds will be smaller. This seems to upset people who prefer to allow the government to use their money before fil...

It's not exactly fake news, but it's misleading--the story you hear that the middle class is shrinking and so many more people are u...

When you receive your paycheck and look at the withholding for federal, state and sometimes city taxes, along with Social Security and Medic...

You are right to be suspicious.  Look what we were told about Obamacare and saving money and keeping our doctors.  But Tax Foundation has cr...

Emanuel Lutheran Church, founded by Swedish Evangelical Lutherans, Hartford, CT  It wasn't really a question.  I know what she thin...

We were at an event yesterday enjoying great food in a party tent, when a woman I didn't know from Worthington told me she could hear th...

There are five quintiles the government uses to show economic groups in the U.S. The top quintile (incomes about $94,000+) pays almost 84% o...

I was going to say this, but he already did. "I’m probably in the minority, but as Tax Day approaches and as we analyze and compare t...

“Measured in 2013 dollars, after-tax median income rose briskly from $46,998 in 1983 to $70,393 in 2008 but remained below that 2008 peak in...

What is fair? What is rich? Is rich Nancy Pelosi and Ruth Bader Ginsberg who are high profile multi-millionaires? Is rich a household with a...

We have a very "progressive" income tax in the U.S.--the top 10% of earners pay over 70% of the income tax. Because I am a pension...

I like the proposed income tax plan--removes deductions (aka loopholes). It won't fly though, because by simplifying taxes it takes away...

“Some TurboTax customers are mad at Intuit, maker of the popular tax-prep software, because they've finished their returns but are unabl...

Obama, having embarrassed his administration with the tax increases and loss of insurance for millions, will once again bang the drum of inc...

Early in the morning (dawn usually) I'm on the road to a coffee shop within a mile or two of my home. This morning at the first stop lig...

Avery Johnson reported today that "More companies are reducing health benefits or passing rising health care costs onto employees....