Given how long the 2016 presidential election season was, you're probably in one of two camps right now: ready to move to Canada, or relieved you don't have to. Either way, it's likely more Americans have actually thought about Canada in the last year than in the...
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Hut, Hut, Hike! (Your Tax Bill)
The 2016 NFL season is in full swing, and fans are spending billions of dollars to show their loyalty to their teams. The average ticket costs $92.98. The average beer runs $7.38. Even parking can cost as much as $75 to see the Cowboys at AT&T Stadium. And fans...
Warren Buffett’s Real Superpower
Spend an afternoon at any area theater, and you'll see heroes with superpowers wreaking havoc wherever they go. Superman is faster than a speeding bullet (and leaps tall buildings in a single bound). Superheroes band together to save the world and debate whether they...
We’re Number One!
Americans love awards shows — the Oscars, the Grammys, the Emmys, and the Tonys. So we all watched eagerly as the nonpartisan Tax Foundation rolled out the red carpet and released "International Tax Competitiveness Index 2016." The ranking rewards countries with low...
Will It Blend or Deduct?
If you've spent any time on the internet, you know it's a vast rabbit hole of places to waste precious minutes of your life. "Will it Blend" is one of those places, a video series showing off the Blendtec line of blenders. The videos feature the company's founder,...
Round ’em Up and Shake ’em Down
Last month, Hollywood brought back the classic western with a remake of The Magnificent Seven. It's a tale as old as the West itself. An evil land baron terrorizes a town to satisfy his insatiable greed . . . and a ragtag squad of outlaws rides in to the rescue. tax...
Moneyball? Ehhh, Not Really
America is a nation divided. Cat people vs. dog people. Trump people vs. Clinton people. And last week, we discovered a new gulf to bridge: "Brad" people and "Angelina" people. That's right, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are filing for divorce after two years of wedded...
Do They or Don’t They?
Matt Bissonnette grew up in a dinky flyspeck of a town off the Alaskan coast that you can't get to without a boat or a plane. He ultimately escaped to join SEAL Team Six, the Navy's most elite counterterrorism force. He took part in the 2009 mission to rescue Captain...
Ahoy, Tax Maties!
Labor Day has faded into memory, and before you know it, the holidays will be here. Halloween, Thanksgiving, and the year-end Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa cavalcade of commercialism are the obvious "Big Three." But in all the holiday season hype, it's easy to overlook a...
Red Tax Inheritance Rising
Novelist Tom Clancy shot to the top of the best seller lists when former president Ronald Reagan called his debut, The Hunt for Red October, "the best yarn." His stories featuring CIA analyst-turned-president Jack Ryan redefined the "techno-thriller" genre, with...