Morgan Spurlock, the man who brought us Supersize Me (and inspired me to go to McDonalds immediately after seeing the movie), has just begun a TV show. In the first episode he and his girlfriend attempt to live on minimum wage for a month. Here's a review. I have it recorded at home, but have yet to watch it. According to the review, they ran in to several difficulties, including having a hard time finding a job that pays as low as minimum wage. They also left out several things, like why 39% of his paycheck was deducted (for medical insurance, perhaps? We don't know, because he doesn't mention it, but if even a close to minimum wage worker is getting decent health insurance, then anyone who is willing to work hard ought to have no problem getting health care), or whether he gets the earned income credit.

Speaking of taxes, I understand tax revenues collected by the government have gone WAY up this year, primarily due to the tax cuts Bush made. Of course as soon as he is out of office the Dems will try to get rid of those tax cuts and revenues will go way down.