Tax day is not being delayed by three days this year because of a sudden surge in federal generosity. Trust me, they need the money.
Your due date was instead delayed from the April 15 to April 18 because of Emancipation Day, a government holiday in the District of Columbia that commemorates the 1862 freeing of the slaves in the District by President Abraham Lincoln.
D.C.’s slaves were freed nine months earlier than those in other Union-controlled territories who were liberated by the Emancipation Proclamation. To commemorate this head start, District workers and federal workers in the District have had the day off since 2005.
The official date is the 16th, but what’s the use of having a government holiday on a Saturday? So, that means that the procrastinators among the nation’s 140.5 million tax filers have until Monday to dawdle before making their panicked dash to the Post Office.
Giving the fiscally frazzled two more days to sweep up coffee-stained receipts and buy stamps has been one of the few bits of happy news to come from the District of late.
Getting arrested is not typically considered a savvy political move for big city mayors, but Washington is hardly the typical American city.
Mayor Vincent Gray, under fire for cronyism and mismanagement after just four months on the job, was hauled away from the U.S. Capitol in handcuffs this week after leading a sit-in to protest a bipartisan spending plan. Gray’s problem with the deal is that it forbids subsidized abortions in the District and reopens a school voucher program unpopular with Gray and his supporters in the teachers’ unions.
Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District’s non-voting delegate to the House, compared the legislation to
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