The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS read more

The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes...

Uncle claims that if he files his income tax wrong he'll go to jail, and if he files it right read more

Uncle claims that if he files his income tax wrong he'll go to jail, and if he files it right he'll go to the poor house.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.

It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that read more

It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is a challenge to the conceit of those in power.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

If patriotism is, as Dr. Johnson used to remark, the last refuge of the scoundrel, wrapping outdated industry in the read more

If patriotism is, as Dr. Johnson used to remark, the last refuge of the scoundrel, wrapping outdated industry in the mantle of national interest is the last refuge of the economically dispossessed. In economic terms, pleading national interest is the declining cottage industry of those who have been bypassed by the global economy.