Tax Guru – Ker$tetter Letter

Treasury, IRS Warn of Identity Theft Scheme Involving Bogus E-mail, Web site – Similar to the dozens of info phishing scams that arrive in our emails each day pretending to be from eBay, PayPal, Microsoft and CitiBank.

Google hype addressed on boards

Virginia Republicans under fire for pro-tax position – Thus, the Scarlet T.

Finance: Should You Prepay Your Mortgage? – Rather than simply base a decision to pay off a mortgage on the interest rates, I always caution people against being “real estate rich and cash poor.” Putting all of your money into your home can often be counter productive. It’s a good feeling having some available cash for emergencies and unexpected opportunities. Often, paying off a mortgage is like a one way valve. It may be difficult or impossible to borrow that money back out later, if the need arises.

Using an Annuity to Play the Medicaid Game – Converting assets to annuities has long been a stock tool in impoverishment planning to help people qualify for programs like MedicAid.

Budget balanced illegally, court says – Oregon taxpayers could be receiving some refunds of their 2001 taxes.

Why Sept. 11 brought us bigger government–and why that’s a bad thing

Taxpayers Win Major Battle in Fight for a Tax Free Internet

Study: Lawmakers Lament Deficits but Most Draft Bills to Boost Budget Higher – They’re hopelessly addicted to pork.

Time to transform Social Security into a wealth-creating vehicle. – Instead of the IOUs that disappear when you die.

Tax & Fiscal Information for Senator John Kerry – Of course, this is rapidly becoming a moot point, as my prediction of someone else taking his place on the DemonRat ticket looks more likely every day of his totally inept and incompetent campaign.

Stop the Spree – Tax cuts don’t cause deficits. Out of control spending does.

Sanford tax plan moves to Senate floor – A possible reduction in the state income tax rate for South Carolina.

Jonah Goldberg has an interesting look at the dilemma conservatives have in supporting RINOs and other members of the GOP who are violating basic conservative principles. He voices a common concern many of us have:

Many conservatives, myself included, are fairly outraged that President Bush is spending taxpayer dollars like a pothead teenager with a stolen credit card.

However, Jonah is making the same mistake as Rush Limbaugh in assuming that there are only two choices in an election and choosing the lesser evil is the only option we have; when in fact, there is a political party that is still true to the belief in small constitutionally authorized government, the Libertarians.

People who are upset about RINOs, such as PA’s Arlen Specter, would make a more powerful statement in support of conservatism by voting for the Libertarian candidate than by voting for the RINO or by sitting the election out. Otherwise, Bush and the RINOs will continue to take conservatives for granted and will see no downside to usurping even more of the DemonRat agenda.