Not Everyone Is Scared

The GOP may be backing away from the idea of allowing people to control how some of their retirement money is invested; but there is a new coalition of business groups that is planning to fight for that choice. I couldn’t find a website for this group, COMPASS. If anyone comes across it, please let me know.

KMK

Keeping Them Stupid

Continuing its erosion of personal freedoms, they are actually trying to make it a crime to home school kids in the PRC. They don’t want to take a chance that some kiddies may reach adulthood without the proper indoctrination from the government brainwashers. If the PRC rulers get their way, any parents who actually want their children to receive a decent education will lose custody of those children. If this doesn’t sound like Communist countries, I don’t know what does.

In the small world category, the power mad California Superintendent of Public Instruction, Delaine Eastin, actually started her left-wing political career on the City Council of Union City, CA while I was living there in the 1980s. She was originally an analyst with Pacific Bell; but fell in love with running the lives of other people and controlling what all children are allowed & forced to learn.

KMK

Say No To E-File

IRS has ramped up its PR campaign to encourage us in the practitioner community to offer electronic filing of tax returns and will soon start a similar PR campaign aimed at taxpayers to pester their preparers to offer such a service. As I have written on several occasions, I do not believe that submitting an income tax return within the limited confines of the IRS’s format is in the best interest of my clients; so I am once again refusing to participate.

KMK