Tag: national debt

Second Wednesday of the Month Politics: We Suck
Those familiar with this blog know that I’m not a fan of government. I worked for a municipality on Long Island for twenty-one years. The politicians and department heads I worked for, and the co-workers I worked with, were largely a disgrace. The biggest concern for the politicians was staying in power. For department heads?…

Government Spending: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
I was bored last night, so I decided to determine what my effective tax rate for 2017 is going to be. Since I know what my income and property taxes will be for 2017, this calculation was rather straight forward. Here it is. The only thing that posed a little problem was estimating the amount…