Itâs Easter Sunday for those who celebrate it. For Wrongo, itâs the final push to finish our taxes that are due on Monday. This time of year is always a painful reminder that roughly a quarter of the fruits of our labor go to Washington and Hartford. And if you need help? Well, that ship has sailed. The IRS is currently answering only 1 in 5 phone calls.
As Helene Olen says in the WaPo:
âThis isnât incompetence…Itâs the result of a…decades-long and mostly successful campaign by…Republicans…to demean and defund the IRS. As a result, the…agency is severely understaffed and working with outdated technology. Which means hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes are uncollected…â
More from Olen:
âYet many Republicans donât want to fix it. They are pushing back against President Bidenâs plan â part of his Build Back Better agenda â to give the IRS $80 billion over the next decade to improve its operations.â
Also, an interesting fact from the UKâs Financial Times about the inventiveness of the Ukrainian soldiers:
âThe Russian attempt to take Kyiv was defeated by a combination of factors including geography, the attackersâ blundering, Ukrainian ingenuity, and modern arms….Moscowâs forces were thwarted, too, by pieces of foam mat â the Ukrainians call them karemats â costing as little as ÂŁ1.50. The mats prevent Russian thermal imaging drones from detecting human heat â
Apparently the Ukrainian troops held the karemats over their heads, allowing them to move undetected at night, so soldiers armed with anti-tank weapons could sneak up on the Russians, fire their rockets and then slip away. Karemats are used throughout Ukraine and Russia.
An equivalent Pentagon human body heat cloaking system would cost $100k per. On to cartoons.
Is the tax game rigged? You betcha:
Ukraine also sank Russiaâs Black Sea flagship, Moskva:
The NRA was joined by Marjorie Taylor Greene in spouting craziness about NYC:
Jared Kushner gets paid for services rendered, and the elephant wants you to look away:
GOP says Right to Choose isnât limited:
Bunny is accepted while kids are not: