Not everyone is a Shaquille O'Neal, making millions, that can travel with a coterie of accountants. We consider it to be an outrageous administrative burden on anyone who travels and works for a few days out of state.

But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.

Any tax increases that did pass after the remarkably low collection in 2002 are contributing to the increased collections now.

Any fundamental reform is a long shot, but there is no denying that the momentum behind the fair tax concept is building,

Unfortunately, we now need to either find a 50-and-over league that will accept us or join a golf league instead!

The biggest factor is income. The higher the state's per capita income, the higher the percentage that goes into the pot.