Tuesday, April 15, 2008

From Freakonomics; The Calendar

April 15th

"1n 1987 the Internal Revenue Service changed 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."

3 comments:

amanda said...

that is GREAT. so so funny. i bet they were trying to catch your parents in a lie. but, nope they really did have all of those kids. jokes on them.

benjy said...

Sounds like one for the X-files...

Daphne said...

so interesting!! i had no idea!