Non-compliance amounts to a tax of about $2,000 on every taxpayer.

We're setting things up for both conservatives' and liberals' worst nightmare. We're going to have a government that can't provide even essential services, and we're going to have tax rates that make our historical tax rates look like some golden era by comparison.

The tax system is broken, and any kind of reform will involve winners and losers.

The breakdown of people who are hit by the tax is like a demographic profile of the population in the New York area.

There is a big opportunity for double-dipping.

They [officials] have put the cost of the storm at $26 billion, but that could balloon. Nobody knows. If we are at a tipping point, obviously the impact could be worse.