As many of you know, I am a tax accountant, and I have spent many years giving tax advice and preparing tax returns for a wide variety of people and businesses. Among them have been the very rich and the very poor. I am always looking for a way to make the tax bill lower [...]
You have seen them yourself at one time or another. At just about every freeway entrance and exit throughout Cascadia and the rest of North America, you will find them. Who will we find? Well, none other than the scruffy-looking man or woman, always looking like they need your handout, and always holding the ubiquitous [...]
Today, the board of Sound Transit is meeting to decide whether to put a plan to increase the sales tax to finance light rail and other transit options for the next decade or two. There are strong opinions both ways, to go ahead and put an aggressive proposal on the ballot or to do nothing [...]
Well, the time has come. Upon my desk, as I type this, is my Oregon vote-by-mail ballot that I have to return to my county election office by 8:00 pm on Tuesday the 20th. I have looked over many of the statewide candidates and the ballot measures. Many of those choices become obvious to me, [...]
Recently, I posted a couple of articles on the subject of US law enforcement agents stopping people on the ferry dock to check out whether they might be terrorists. Or perhaps they might be undocumented foreigners that we might find while looking for terrorists. In any case, I thought that it might be unwise for [...]
So we hear in the news that two of our three presidential candidates want to give us a “gas tax holiday” over the summer. They really are kidding, aren’t they? Here, I thought that Senator Clinton was really a serious candidate, too. Sure, I would like to see our gasoline go down in price by [...]
There has been a great amount of talk lately about whether NAFTA and free trade are good or bad for the US. I believe that free trade is something we need, but we also need to do what will ensure keeping skilled labor jobs domestic. If a person takes a world view of world trade, [...]
