It would be remiss of us to not recognize today, March 15th, as the first big deadline of the 2012 tax season. This post serves as tribute to all of you tax jockeys whose tax season more or less ends today (but it never really ends, does it?). And for those of you still furiously preparing extensions and getting your second wind for the next 31…er, 33 days, you best reload your 5-hour bomb supply.
So if you feel the need to shout to the heavens, rejoicing over the end of another tax season, or simply need to collapse into a heap in the parking lot (figuartively speaking), you may do so at this time. Happy March 15th.

At a minimum, the Cain plan is a distributional monstrosity. The poor would pay more while the rich would have their taxes cut, with no guarantee that economic growth will increase and good reason to believe that theÂ