A Follow-Up on Health Savings Accounts

Last year, when our rulers in DC were crafting the tax cuts, they played fast and loose with the effective dates for the various provisions of that bill. In their classic smoke and mirrors style, they set up most of the tax cuts to be temporary, with varying expiration dates.

At the time, they claimed that they would later go in and make them permanent. However, they still haven’t done so, and the first part of that bill turns into a pumpkin next year, 2005.

Regardless of who wins the November election for the White House, if our rulers in Congress don’t do something to either extend these tax cuts – or better still, just make them permanent — everyone’s taxes will go up next year. We all should be pestering our CongressCritters to act ASAP on this matter. Doing nothing is tantamount to raising all of our taxes.

Thanks to Andrew Roth of MoveRight.org for posting this PDF version of the impending tax increases. I thought it was so important, that I converted that to HTML and posted it on my website so that we can refer to it often. I’ve also added a link to it in my BlogRoll on the right side of this page.

From a recent Fark PhotoShop contest with the theme of Truth In Advertising:

Big-bill bearer: Just a mistake – The idiot woman who tried to use a million dollar bill to buy things from Wal-Mart claims it was a mistake, but that she thought the bill was real. Definitely a John Kerry voter.

Pals tell all about counterfeiting – These idiots even burned up some of their fake twenties while cooking them in a microwave oven.

Dialing For Dollars – I’m always interested in creative ways people try to make money. Of course, some of those ways aren’t exactly kosher. These guys scammed the phone company out of half a million smackers by auto-dialing two million 800 numbers and receiving a commission of 24 cents for each call.

Or, as I like to say, “free advice is worth every penny you pay for it.”