Another Easter has come and gone and with it, the annual cool snap that always accompanies that holiday (as Casey Stengel would say, you can look it up – every Easter brings a brief cool spell).
Easter this year also coincides with that favorite time of year – federal income tax deadline.
The heavy-handiness of the IRS is so bad that it inspired me to write a novel about a poor schmuck who is unfairly targeted by the agency for hundreds of thousands of dollars he doesn’t owe and decides to fight back. With some newspaper friends and the Internet, he brings Congress to a grinding haltand forces the federal government to negotiate on his terms.
The book is called It’s All TheIRS and you can get a signed copy by contributing $100 or more to LouisianaVoice’s semi-annual fund drive, yet another April feature you don’t want to miss. (I would say a free signed copy if I were some shameless televangelist, but if you’re contributing $100, it wouldn’t be free, would it?)
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