Following up on a OMB Watch Budget Blog posting late last month, the Washington Post has an excellent editorial in this morning's paper criticizing Congress for "resorting to a [tax] gimmick that is even more egregious than their usual tactics."

Your representative in the House is probably at home from Washington for the Easter recess, holding town hall forums, making speeches, and kissing babies. Now is the perfect time to let your representative know that you are concerned about radical proposals for sunset commissions! Any chance you get -- whether it's a question-and-answer session or just going down the line to shake your member's hand -- is a chance to register your concerns. Take it! Print out our tips (PDF | Word), or read below:

Check out this Responsible Weath release which says that even more people now prefer keeping or reforming the estate tax, as opposed to repealing it. The release says:

Last week the National Priorities Project released their annual publication Where Do Your Tax Dollars Go? The publication shows how the median income family's income tax dollars are spent for every state and 200 cities, towns and counties. It also looks at the shift in how tax dollars were spent in 2005 compared with 2000. For example, NPP has found that the military's share of the income tax dollar has risen by 20 percent since 2000, while the share of spending has dropped for job training (-21 percent), environment (-19 percent), housing (-7 percent) and veteran's benefits (-2 percent).