AP Explains: Tax season and the pandemic

Who Cares About Romney's Money? What Matters Is How He'd Tax It - News - GOOD

Here is an important infographic that everyone should see. We need to know how potential presidents would vote on proposed changes in tax if they were elected. It's an interactive infographic so follow the link to get the full effect.


Who Cares About Romney's Money? What Matters Is How He'd Tax It - News - GOOD

The United States Government Debates Whether the X-Men Are Human Beings... In Real Life - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews

Okay, here is a great example for why I like to read Comics Alliance. They just posted a story that I had not heard about where the US Government wanted to tax toys based on the X-Men franchise differently from other toys based on whether or not they represented human beings or not. There was a whole podcast on this by RadioLab and in addition to posting the podcast there were great comments made in the Comics Alliance post.

You can listen to the fascinating story above -- including a few thoughts on the case from X-Men movie director Bryan Singer -- and it's well worth 18 minutes of your time. The short version is that tariff law classifies toys into two different categories. Anything that's brought into the country for a kid to play with is either a doll, which includes anything that represents a human being, or a toy, which covers anything that's not. It might seem like a small distinction -- especially when I'm sure some of you are out there shouting "they're action figures!" -- but the fact is that the import tax on dolls is twice what it is for toys.

Back in the '90s, when Toy Biz was making so much money off of X-Men action figures that it was able to actually buy Marvel comics at one point, this was a pretty big deal. But the thing about those lucrative X-Men toys is that they're not based on "humans" -- or at least, they're not based on homo sapiens. So armed with that distinction, trade lawyers Sherry Singer and Indie Singh went to the customs office to take up the proud tradition of Bolivar Trask and argue that mutants are not, in fact, human beings, and should not be treated as such.

Magneto was right, y'all. About international trade taxes, at least.

Read More: http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/12/29/xmen-human-real-life-radiolab/#ixzz1hyLjzzEK

The United States Government Debates Whether the X-Men Are Human Beings... In Real Life - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews

Tax and Spend by Barack Obama

Apparently there are some Americans that are not happy with the change in Taxes. They are staging a demonstration kind of like the Boston Tea Party from the American Revolution. Here is what I found from YouTube:

Revolution is brewing... This April 15th go to your local tea party! There will be tea parties in over 500 cities! Find out where your cities tea party will be here: http://www.taxdayteaparty.com

Tax Facts

I found the perfect video to commemorate Tax day. Remember Jesus paid his taxes and we have to pay them too.