My tax return is in a sense very ordinary,

The quicker Hattiesburg can return to a sense of normalcy and people see this is back to the place it was 30 days ago, opportunities will come that were never here before.

We're going to have to get the money somewhere, and you'll have to shift that burden from property tax to sales and income tax, but I think it can be done.

The unstated message [of Bush's tax cuts] was that we were not all in this together, ... and, whatever the economic merits or demerits of the policy, the civic implications of that policy were abominable.

Tax laws favor capital over labor, giving capital gains a lower rate than ordinary income. The rich get humongous mortgage interest deductions while renters get no deduction at all.

A lot of anxiety is created by people when they think about filing their tax return. It's like going to the dentist. Just do it and get it over with.