The symbolic date when Massachusetts residents are said to start working for themselves instead of merely paying their tax burden to government is coming up next week, according to an organization that tracks taxes.
Massachusetts is tied for 43rd in the nation this year for earliest Tax Freedom Day, which this year occurs on Tuesday, April 23, according to the Tax Foundation, a pro-growth think tank in Washington D.C. that is skeptical about taxes.
Former Boston Globe freelance writer Luke O'Neil says he never had any inkling to urinate on a dinner entree he served as a waiter 10 years ago to neoconservative William Kristol — as opposed to the earthy term he used while suggesting just that in the lede of a column he wrote last week.
"Well, the main reason I started with that is because it's very clearly a funny joke. And, you know, obviously I was never going to actually pee in somebody's dish – and I'm going to have to try really hard to not say the other word here, I'm told. … That would be a really insane thing to do. As I do in much of my writing, I was using crude hyperbole to sort of make a point …" O'Neil said during a radio interview Wednesday on WBUR FM-90.9.
