Check out this NYT article to find out how much people like you are being audited compared to other people. And see the latest release by Syracuse University's TRAC, which had to sue the IRS to get data that shows that it has been strangely unproductive when it audits large corporations.

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) and four GOP colleagues wrote Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-TN) yesterday that they want the Senate to take up S. Res. 123, a earmarks disclosure rule. The Senate passed a statutory version of the rule unanimously as part of S. 1, the ethics and and lobbying reform bill adopted 96-2 in January. DeMint and Sens. Coburn (OK), Cornyn (TX), Enzi (WY), and Chambliss (GA) said they will seek unanimous consent next Tuesday to consider the measure. As a resolution, it would become an internal rule of the Senate and, unlike S.

The Chaney Fiscal Theorem, which asserts that Deficits Don't Matter, was the dominant view underlying the tax and budget policies of the nation's governing party for most of this decade.

Craig excerpts an interesting article below that reminds us that there was once a time when the median wage tracked productivity- or, as I like to think, a time when people were paid what they earned.