Well, maybe not a great plan.

I will state it certainly seems like some entity has a buying plan with the increased volume. It is not nearly high enough to get overly excited about -- we need some of those 2M days -- but it looks like something is up.

As a libertarian (little "L"), taxes are not very high on my list (Gil, it will take longer than 2 hours and 2 bottles of good red to convince me, but I'm up for it), but here is what a few prominent Americans have stated:

Milton Friedman
Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay.

John Maynard Keynes
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.

Winston Churchill
There is no such thing as a good tax.

Will Rogers
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

I really like Will Rogers.

John