Asking For Higher Taxes

As some columnists like to say, “Only in New York” would people ask for their taxes to be raised. Maybe that’s why Queen Hillary has been so graciously accepted there.

KMK

Voting For Taxes

It was an interesting election around the country yesterday. What surprised me, as well as all of the pollsters, were the defeats of the two Libertarian sponsored ballot measures to remove taxes. In spite of predicted (feared) victories, both the repeal of the income tax in Massachusetts and the removal of the sales tax on human food and over the counter medicine here in Arkansas were severely defeated. It looks like the opponents of these tax reductions wasted a lot of time, energy and money in their efforts to keep them off of the ballot. Their scare tactics of how terrible things would be without those taxes did the job much more efficiently. I can’t say I’m pleased with the results; but I am much more willing to accept them from the ballot than from a gang of elite rulers forbidding any say in the matter.

KMK

New URL

Due to serious reliability and support problems with the Blogspot systems, I decided to set up the new permanent location for this blog at www.TaxGuru.net in order to be separate from my main site. No future changes are expected. Please update your bookmarks.

This should actually work out better all around. Back several years ago, when the dot-com land-rush was hot and furious, I bought up several tax related URLs. Unfortunately, a CPA in the Silicon Valley beat me to the TaxGuru.com address; but I snapped up the dot-org, dot-net, dot-info and dot-us versions and have kept them on ice until the proper time.

While I already paid in advance for a year’s hosting space on Blogspot.com, I just have to eat that. The Toronto hosting service we have been using for our other sites for several years, MyHosting.com, still has the best deal, with 50 megs of space for $9.95 per month. The transition to the new host went very smoothly. I am still using the Blogger Pro service to produce this blog.

KMK