
What Would Steve Jobs Tell Congress?
Like many I watched the kabuki theater that is Congress perp walk Apple CEO Tim Cook in front of a committee to berate the company for legally applying the tax code that Congress created to preserve cash using the offshore entities the income was earned in. I was left with the question “would Congress have […]

Incenting Behavior: Spend Mgmt. Learning From an Automotive Purchase and IRS Section 179 (Part 1)
In the past few weeks, my wife and I finally decided it was time to buy a car for our business. The old minivan, which has had double family and work duty for four years, will continue to menace the streets of Chicago as it tears …

Your Tax Dollars at Work
The Federal government, specifically the Federal Highway Administration, is spending $1.2 billion of your money to nationalize the 511 highway traffic reporting system, replicating what Yahoo, Google, Navteq, and others are already doing. This is a great example of the overreach that is endemic to the Federal government but what is really troubling about it […]

The Answer is Taxes
Image via Wikipedia The Merc ran a story today that I have seen run twice already in the Chron about how sponsors of commemorative license plate programs are coming up short, pathetically short, of their goals. But a proposed plate that would feature a small image of the Golden Gate Bridge and whose proceeds would […]