Tax Day

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Today is, of course, Tax Day.  I'll have some information for you on who is paying taxes and who is not, plus some of the things your tax dollars are being spent on.  Mark Steyn has some of the tax details.  Note that nearly half of Americans pay no federal income tax and that nearly half of Americans think that their income taxes are about right.  The Associated Press is spinning it to make it look like Americans are paying less in taxes due to Glorious Leader Obama, even though ultimately the middle class is going to get hit with new taxes from ObamaCare.

 

Here are a few rules that the government can follow in their accounting, but you will get audited and thrown in jail if you try the same thing on your tax return.

 

In honor of Tax Day, 1040FU wine!

 

Citizens Against Government Waste has issued their Pig Book for 2010, listing the pork projects brought home by each member of Congress.  You can search it here.  The Cato Institute also points out that earmarks crowd out private investment, ultimately hurting the local economy.

 

The Warner Robins City Council will be meeting at 5:30 tonight to discuss the location for the new LEC at their desired location at the old FoodMax building on Russell Parkway.  Opposition to the location is strong among Warner Robins residents, but right now it looks like members of City Council don't care.  The newly-formed Recreation Advisory Board is getting in on the demagoguery of the LEC location too.  Businesses are continuing to move in to Warner Robins' Commercial Circle area, so why are Mayor C. Jack Shaheen and members of City Council trying to knee-cap the development?

 

The state legislature yesterday approved the bill to raise the hotel-motel tax for the Halls of Fame.  As Rep. Mark Burkhalter put it, "if they choose to lose money, that's up to them."

 

The Bibb County school system will have to take out a loan to make payroll next month.  The finances should be the least of the concerns of Bibb County parents.

 

Macon City Council is still looking for a way to increase the severance package for laid-off city employees.  Those employees are votes, you see.

 

The Macon-Bibb Urban Development Authority voted yesterday to create a "community development entity" that would use federal tax dollars to encourage investment in low-income communities.

 

The Houston County School Board says that class sizes will increase as a result of layoffs next school year.  What they're really trying to do is grease the skids for a tax hike.

 

The city of Centerville is preventing a woman from performing her new-age hippie fortune telling and meditation.  She may be kooky, but why should the city or county stop her from doing business?

 

The last day of the Georgia General Assembly will be April 29.  Good riddance.

 

Georgia could become the first state without a state arts agency.  Why should any state have an arts agency?

 

The state legislature passed a bunch of tax and fee increases that take effect immediately along with a few targeted tax cuts that will be phased in over the next few years and will create a new tax-free class.  Overall it is still a bad bill.

 

Eric Johnson is trying to solidify his support in the state legislature.  This won't do well for him if he is trying to paint himself as anything but an establishment candidate.

 

Washington Democrats are trying to quickly spend $23 billion to keep government schools from having to lay off teachers.