No one, the eminent Judge Learned Hand wrote, has to pay one cent more in taxes than obligated. However, millions of Americans have been doing that for years. That’s even though

“They learned nothing and they forgot nothing.” (What was often said of the Bourbon kings, some of the worst monarchs in European history). Millions of Americans are acting like Bourbon kings. They

When is a government’s debt not actually the government’s and the taxpayer’s debt? That is the issue here in New York State, which has some of the highest debt levels in

My local city council member, obeying her party, joins the majority in showing her contempt for the average New York City taxpayer. Why do so few people vote? Why are some

Sunday shopping at the local Trader Joe’s early in the morning---trying to beat the oncoming rush of humanity preparing for Superbowl parties---I heard it again as I have from so