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Daily Archive for January 24th, 2008

George Orwell Would Be Proud

Posted in Constitution on Jan 24th, 2008

Our Founders drafted the Constitution with fewer than 5,000 words; with later amendments it is about 8,000 words. The federal tax code is more than 9 million words. So the document that created the government is less than 0.1% as long as the tax code that funds it. Such is the state of Washington today. […]

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Imagine If This Were a Private Company

Posted in Competition on Jan 24th, 2008

Even if Congress meets its goal of finishing a stimulus bill before March, it is likely to take until June for the government to start sending out the millions of rebate checks that would be the plan’s centerpiece. It would take a couple more months before all the checks could be mailed. The IRS — […]

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