X Marks the Blockbuster
Submitted by Phil Villarreal on Tue, 05/30/2006 - 16:54
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Want to know the secret of the ridiculous $102.8 million weekend box office haul for "X-Men: The Last Stand"? It's got nothing to do with quality, word of mouth or even a shrewd marketing campaign by Fox. Nope, the only reason it made so much money is because there are so many damn characters in the film. Each and every one of the 1.028 million X-Men depicted onscreen had 100 friends and family members buy tickets over the weekend.
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.
Who's got your number?
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.
