Tax time is almost here, a period when, like the cartoon character Snoopy, we wish we could write the IRS asking to be removed from their mailing list. People little realize that taxes are a form of power because a bureaucracy funded by taxpayers is beholden to them.  Cut that “umb

The debate continued for several minutes until we realized we were using terms differently. Definitions were the source of our disagreement. I shouldn’t have been surprised. More than once, I’ve noted that language is as slippery as a well-greased pig. An argument can be debilitat