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(more…)Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
Three Bucks
Although tax filing is still about six weeks away, I decided to get my taxes calculated just to see how much money I would be flushing down the toilet. Of course, one of the very first questions asked is whether or not I or my wife wanted to contribute $3 to the Presidential Election Campaign Fund. As I have all my life, I just checked “No”.
Government Waste: Logo Go Go
Fed Tapering Redux
Better Laid Than Never
As you probably know, if for any reason you’re ever interested in destroying large sums of money, just get a government involved. City, state, or federal, it doesn’t matter. The simple fact is that these power-hungry organizations are populated by people who couldn’t hack it in the world of private enterprise, so they have found solace in union-protected, high-paying government jobs where it’s impossible to be fired and there’s zero accountability. Just show up now and then, and the direct deposits will flow.
With that as a basis, I was not the least bit surprised to see this headline in the morning paper:
