Taxes and the monster under your bed...

Taxes, taxes, taxes! How do U.S. taxes compare to the rest of the industrialized world?

• Straight Dope article
  
• Christian Science Monitor
• MoneyCentral
  
• Tax Policy Center
  

Living Up to Our Principles Isn't Easy

I recently had a conversation about the so-called "Ground-zero" mosque with a friend. My friend is bright, very successful and normally a level-headed guy.

When it comes to the mosque, he's taken a position that only some of us deserve to have the rights guaranteed by the constitution. He's not the only acquaintance to make this argument.

Our short dialog took place on Facebook (click image at left to read.) It became increasingly disturbing because of his attack on my faith as part of a discussion about constitutional rights.

If people like my friend can go off the deep end, and FOX can con 20% of population into believing that Obama is a Muslim (socialist, communist, fascist, non-citizen, blah, blah, blah) then we as a country are in a sorry state...