CHICAGO - When the Sacramento Kings walked so sheepishly off the United Center floor at halftime against Chicago on Monday night, they half expected to have pink slips waiting in their lockers with the way they pretended to compete.
Where's the dunce cap? Mitch Kupchak is sitting in the vacant stands at Staples Center hours before his Los Angeles Lakers would win the West again. He was wearing a suit and a smile but no dunce cap.
Paying taxes unites us. It also divides us. People can pay five and even six times more in state and local taxes than other folks in similar circumstances making similar incomes.
In one of the fastest-growing forms of identity theft, crooks are stealing tax refunds by swiping personal information and using it to trick the Internal Revenue Service.