Soak the rich? Not!

Politicians love to play the "the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer" song. They never tire of it, even though the top 3% wage earners pay 48% of the nation's taxes. So Maryland went after the affluent and started a "millionaire tax" to get more revenue into the state's coffers. The result? The rich went to less-tax states (there was a 33% decline in Maryland's millionaires), and $100 million less flowed into the government. This story appearead on Fox Business News today.

More theft

Governments never cease in their ability to extract our money from us. Here's an article that many business owners won't find amusing. Governments at all levels tax us cradle to grave. The founding fathers are turning over in their graves. I'll put up with it for a little while longer, then I'm leaving the empire. My tax free, no armed forces future locale is already picked out. It's small, quiet, and it's not a target.