Waiting to Board

I’m in the Pittsburgh airport, waiting to board a flight back to Dulles. I mostly enjoyed the conference, although the TSA confiscated my tube of toothpaste on the way to Pittsburgh. Going back, I made sure to put the replacement tube I had bought in Pittsburgh in my checked bag. I’m wearing a white shirt, my Henry George Sesquicentennial tie, and a blazer, since I dressed up for the banquet last night and the farewell brunch this morning. Wearing cuff links that have to be removed and reinserted does make getting through airport security a little more exasperating than it would be anyway.

Tax Audit

I’m home, and when I got back, I found to my inexpressible delight that I am required to call a tax examiner at the IRS, and make arrangements to see her.

I now have an additional and personal reason to support LVT. With land value taxation, an assessor might have to be allowed into your land to properly assess it, but audits into your charitable contributions and other deductions would not be necessary.