U.S. Already Has a Flat Tax, and It Isn’t Pretty – It’s the insane AMT.

Tax Advice for Owners of Vacation Rentals

Fixed-Rate Mortgages Become Less Expensive

The Onion’s survey of opinions on adopting a national sales tax

Not that that they’re particularly rare, but Ohio CPA Dana Stahl passes along a few more examples of why we can’t trust the mainstream media for tax related news.

Close The Tax Gap – With its fabricated size.  As I’ve explained on several occasions, the mysterious “tax gap” of uncollected taxes, is absolutely impossible to ascertain with any degree of accuracy, so IRS spokespersons like to pull big huge numbers out of their butts in order to scare up more money and power for themselves.  I guess this writer covers his rear by using the term “estimated,” but I think my description of WAG (wild ass guess) is a lot more accurate.

Greenspan raises a few hackles  – I’m sorry; but anyone who insists on blaming the deficit on tax cuts and refers to the fictitious Clinton surpluses as anything but the figments of a wild imagination, is either a complete idiot or a liar on the scale of the Clintons, or more likely both.  

Unfortunately, these kinds of stories, as dictated by the DemonRat Party, are far too common in the dwindling mainstream media.