Thursday, July 31, 2008

I missed this important holiday

A good friend sent me an email a couple weeks ago, but it got lost, drowned, in the flurry of email. He pointed me to the Americans for Tax Reform. They announced that the 16th of July was the day most Americans started working for themselves:

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Every year, Americans for Tax Reform Foundation, and going forward Center for Fiscal Accountability at ATR calculates the day in the calendar year when Americans have paid their share of the federal, state and local tax and regulatory burdens. This year's COGD falls on July 16 an increase of 4 days over the revised date for 2007, when COGD fell on July 12. Since 1977, COGD has fallen later than July 16 in only four of those 32 years.
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As frustrating as it is that we spend about half our time working for the government, like Will Rogers said, "It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for."


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