Earlier this year the Dallas Mavericks were not playing the national anthem before games, a new bill being proposed is clearly taking a shot at Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.
Benjamin Franklin once wrote, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." And the two may be even more closely linked than we thought -- a new study shows fatal car crashes rise on April's annual tax deadline day.
Remember the kids who always sat in the front of the classroom, the ones who reminded the teacher when she forgot to hand out homework? Those kids grew up into adults who get their oil changed every 3,000 miles, visit the dentist every six months like clockwork and file their taxes as soon as they can.
Then there were the back of the class kids. They're now the reasons dentists send those "we
"Nothing can said to be certain, except death and taxes." As April 15 approaches, those famous words from Benjamin Franklin resonate stronger and stronger. Yet Franklin spoke them 100 years before the most difficult and vexing tax to most Americans -- the income tax -- even existed.
So how exactly did the income tax as we know it come to be?
Amount of income, number of deductions, total receipts, amount of times you banged your head on the table: April is the month of figures.
If the amount of money in your bank account and number on your tax return are making you crazy, take a break, take a breath and distract yourself with some of these numbers from the IRS.