Arkansas in 1992 ranked 7th in percentage of children without health insurance. Arkansas ranked 40th in 1992 and Texas ranked 29th in 1999. 46,000 Americans spend 6.1 billion hours complying with tax laws. Cost of compliance is app. Taxpayers had to deal with 481 separate IRS forms in 1999.
Small businesses pay more than twice the compliance costs than taxes paid.
A quarter of the jail inmates said they had been treated at some time for a mental or emotional problem.