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I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?

I used to do my own taxes. You know how you buy that gigantic sheet at Staples, add up the restaurants, clothes, and taxis and glue your receipts into the book month by month? The more money I made, the more complicated things got.

Whatever you tax, you get less of.

Tax season always means a deluge of tax advice. Unfortunately, most of it is futile and lightweight.

I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

Tax what you burn not what you earn.

There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!

The tax laws are written by men with considerable net worth, and with little understanding of what wage-earners must do to make ends meet.

At a certain point, you can't tax people beyond a certain level.

The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues. It matters not whether its proponents have a 'D' or an 'R' after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.