As artistically inept as I am, I was able to create this in a matter of seconds at this Tombstone Generator website.  I used 1913 as the IRS’s birthdate because that was the year the 16th Amendment was ratified.

I guess last year’s addition of less traditional people to the gallery of action figures (aka dolls), such as political commentator (and real life doll) Ann Coulter, should have tipped us off that other professions would soon be represented with semi-lifelike plastic replicas.  

We financial pros now have MoneyMan to give to the younger generations so they too can dream of one day growing up to beat back IRS auditors and jump over tax shelters in a single bound. I doubt if MoneyMan could beat G.I. Joe in a fist-fight; but I’m sure he could reconcile a bank account much faster.

Dr. Roger Firestien in Buffalo, NY

Four Individuals In Southern California

Discover how much you must save in order to become a millionaire

Get rich quick, repent at leisure – More on the media manufactured malady, affluenza.

Fed says financial junk mail is useful – Plenty of fuel for fireplaces.

A Tax Revolt in Berkeley? – Thanks to Michelle Malkin for this story proving that even the most left-wing tax lovers may eventually reach their breaking point.

Yes, Social Security has to be fixed – Thanks to Neal Boortz for this bit of common sense from New Hampshire.

Social Security Tax Limit May Go Up – As I’ve long predicted, the cap on earnings subject to FICA will be removed just as it was for Medicare.  To make matters even worse for those people, my other prediction still stands. They will most likely be frozen out of ever receiving any or all of their promised benefits when a means testing threshold is instituted.  Regardless of how much they may have paid in over their lifetimes, evil rich people have no right to recover their contributions according to our rulers in DC.  The definition of “evil rich” will be debated; but it can’t get much worse than the one they already use to tax Social Security benefits; $25,000 AGI for singles and $32,000 for married couples.  

Funny video from the folks at JibJab on how Santa wants cash this year instead of cookies, including an appearance by his rarely seen elf accounting department.

Snow Sees Spending Slashed in ’06 Budget – Less spending by our rulers in DC?  Not in our lifetimes.

Quiz Kid Ken Jennings Flat Broke, Seeks Bankruptcy Protection – Satire or prediction?

The Blue-State Tax Burden. Dems want to soak the rich, but not the states where they live.

For lottery winner, $113m hasn’t bought happiness – In spite of this almost cliche result of sudden wealth, I doubt if any of us wouldn’t want to have a chance to prove that we can be the exception to this.

Wife regrets massive lottery jackpot that has husband in string of trouble

As I’ve done for the past few years, I have posted the official QuickBooks 2005 Reference and Training Guides for anyone who is interested to download.  They are large pdf files that I have zipped into one file.  A link to this file can always be found on my main QuickBooks resources page.  I don’t normally use these guides a lot during the year; but they do come in very handy when taking the certification courses.

I have also added a page with some tips on how to best install and run multiple versions of QuickBooks on a computer; which is a necessity for anyone working with different clients.  I’ve also included a screen capture of the folder system I have set up for the several versions of QuickBooks I am currently running on my main computer.

The Social Security Crisis. Without reform, it will destroy itself.

Cashing In on a Losing 529 Plan