• This one is good. The tax protesters say that they don’t have to file income taxes because it’s a voluntary system. And they volunteer to NOT file taxes. Part of what fuels this misconception that taxes are voluntary is a […]

  • It’s fun when AOL Money & Finance highlights posts from WalletPop because we’re a new blog and we’re trying to build our readership. It’s even more fun when they feature my posts! This post is about promotions (particularly from retailers) […]

  • Because I just can’t get enough of the Internal Revenue Service and our messed up American tax system, I’m going to treat my readers to 40 days of “frivolous tax arguments.” Settle down…. I’ll still be posting all of my […]

  • I find this interesting… D.J. Poyfair is the attorney representing Usana Health Sciences to the death against Barry Minkow. He is also the attorney who is representing a group of 15 “independent business owners” against Amway (Quixtar). It appears as […]

  • The Virginian-Pilot By Matthew Jones and Meghan Hoyer Invest in real estate. Make money. Improve neighborhoods. That was the pitch, and it usually started with a ride. Cary McEntee would be at the wheel, steering his black Cadillac Escalade through […]

  • A reader calling himself Bob H. posted this comment under a post about Quixtar/Amway. I thought it was good enough to merit a post of its own. What we have here is an illegal business that have bought protection from […]

  • The December 24 issue of Fortune magazine has an article on Sam E. Antar, the man most widely known as the former CFO of Crazy Eddie, a New York City electronics retailer that went down in flames in 1987 after […]

  • Festivus for the rest of us – The holiday made famous by George Kostanza on Seinfeld makes its way to the real world.

  • Budgeting woes: Where did all the money go? – A couple discovers they “lost” $10,000 this year. What Americans are buying – The 2008 Statistical Abstract of the United States, compiled by the Census Bureau. Changes coming to credit scores […]

  • Today was an unusual day on AOL’s consumer finance blog WalletPop. We’ve got almost 20 people writing for the site, but today it seemed that no one was writing. I wrote several posts last night, and they ended up all […]