My latest for PJM:
We all know what last Monday was. As many of us paid Uncle Sam's toll - mine was almost a wash, which worked out about how I wanted it - one had either a sour mood in knowing that Fedzilla took more of our hard-earned salary or, conversely, that giddy feeling of having absconded with free money because a refund was due. (In many cases, though, that was just the money loaned to Beltway bureaucrats - interest free! Try finding a bank who will give you those terms!)
Yet we forget there's a hidden tax which gnaws at our pocketbooks and the economy at large every day. It was pointed out by the Competitive Enterprise Institute in a report timed for release last Monday called 'Ten Thousand Commandments.'
(Continued at Pajamas Media...)