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Science and Technology at the Christian Science Monitor

For all the crap and dubious decisionmaking that goes on in American government, including the present folly in Iraq, the U.S. remains the best place on earth.

How long Canadians will continue to put up with their guilded cage, the gilt long worn off, is anyone's guess. But, if they wake up, 't ain't gonna be perty.

Gee, I'd love to visit, or even just change planes there, but I'd rather not be sent to Syria to be tortured.

Thereby increasing the workload on the IRS, forcing them to hire more people and raise your taxes.

In the short term, yes. In the long term, it's good to have the IRS as a big expense because it makes a flat-tax that much more convincing. A flat-tax will save you truckloads in the long-term since it eliminates the tax-dodges that keep the middle-class tax rates so high (for those who can't afford to setup their own tax-dodges).

.it costs the Govnmt quite a bit less if you e-file but they charge you to do so! i'll mail them and make them spend more the process my taxes until they make e-file free.

Good point. It's important to maximize the costs of the IRS if we're ever going to get to a flat-tax-style system.

"AC Propulsion's first car to transmit excess power was this all-electric VW Beetle, before it was totaled. "

GOTTA love the caption on the picture of the first car to sell electricity back to the power grids!