Apr 15
In honor of tax day, I am gonna steal todays entry in my Freakonomics calendar.
In 1987 the IRS change one simple rule: Instead of merely listing the name of each dependent child in order to get a deduction, tax filers were now required to provide a Social Security number for each child. On April 15 of that year, seven million American children suddenly vanished from the tax rolls.
It’s amazing how many people break the law if they think they wont be caught. If you think that is interesting, you should read the Freakonomics book.