There should be some sort of rule that bars State Comptrollers from trying to make “viral” videos. For their own sakes, as well as ours. But now that it's out there, here's “Real Taxpayers of Genius” - a spoof on those old Bud Light commercials that encourages you to e-file your taxes. It's spine-tinglingly bad, and worth watching a couple of times.

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1. YouTube video encourages e-filing
2. Agency.com’s Subway pitch, just because. This is my favorite disastrous “viral” video ever.
3. Bud Light’s Real Men of Genius Commercials

POLITICS BUZZ: So Obama's cabinet nominees are not really into paying taxes. Someone in the OEOB probably should've done some more vetting, but in general it's an example I'm happy to follow (especially if Tim Geithner is leading.) “Turbo Tax” is the new “wide stance,” I guess.

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1. Daschle withdraws his nomination
2. Killefer skipped taxes on “household help”
3. Nancy Killefer withdraws over tax concerns
4. Daschle failed to pay $128,000 in taxes
5. Now Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is also in trouble for unpaid taxes
6. Geithner: “I should have been more careful”
7. Geithner explains his mistake
8. Tax dominoes begin to topple
9. Daschle: ‘I Am Deeply Embarassed and Disappointed’
10. Geithner blames Turbo Tax for his $34,000 in unpaid taxes
11. Why Daschle’s tax problem was worse than Geithner’s tax problem
12. Say goodbye to these glasses.
13. Taxes are hard.
14. More pictures of people who don’t like paying taxes

Link: http://www.wallstats.com/deathandtaxes/

Wallstats.com has a crazy interactive visual representation of where your federal tax dollars go. I can’t find “studying the DNA of bears” anywhere on here. Wasn’t that supposedly, like, a big deal or something?

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The Best Links:

1. Death and Taxes Shows Fascinating, Terrible View on Military Tech Spending

Link: http://buzzfeed.com/sjazic/how-taxes-...

Libertarian BuzzFeed user Fair Game tells a story explaining how progressive taxation could lead to class warfare. Should the rich pay more taxes? Should the poor and middle class pay less? What you you think? Respond to the original post .

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How much money will each candidate’s tax plan save the average American? Here’s a more accurate graph that takes into account the proportions of the population at each income level. The previous graphs didn’t take in to account that 60% of the population makes less than $66K and 99% makes less than $600K. Click the image for more analysis.

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