TaxBytes

If you live on the construction route of a light rail system in a major municipality you feel like you are in the middle of a war zone, where blockades and cratered streets abound.

Uh oh! We may be in for one of those good-news-is-bad-news scenarios.

Let’s say you were wrongly convicted of a crime and sent to prison.

How’s this for a conspiracy? Millions of greedy people have conspired to reduce the standard of living for a whole class of good, solid Americans.

It’s sad—really, really sad—that U.

Well, there goes $2.

Mexico is a country that is just briming with economic possibilities, but they remain largely unrealized.

No surprise, perhaps, that the House and Senate have—without much debate and no opposing voices—come up with well-meaning legislation that will only throw more sand into the gears of global commerce.

Question: What’s the first lesson we learn from the recently passed Pension Protection Act? Answer: That most of the critics of allowing workers to deposit their Social Security contributions in a personal account either don’t have a clue about the retirement system or they simply wanted to undermine President Bush’s attempt to reform Social Security for political reasons—or both.

Wait, this can’t be.