The PRC writes the laws that it intends to obey as it goes along. It issues threats to the world as if they were popcorn. I learned firsthand that the public school in my area of Anne Arundel County, Md., did not challenge my children. By not challenging students, the schools lose their best and brightest. The children are shortchanged because everything comes so easily they fail to learn the discipline and study skills required for really tough subjects.
Citizens feel warm and fuzzy about their rebates.
They forget, however, that their rebate checks are money that was ripped from their pay check each pay period money the government uses interest-free. Until this April, I had not done my taxes in more than 30 years, because my spouse had done them. I was amazed at the brute power of the IRS withholding laws when I confronted them this year as a single taxpayer again. It is not enough that I willingly write the large check, send it in on time and do not complain. We have become too accepting of the tax-day fiasco.